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The Cytek Northern Lights is a full spectrum flow cytometer that shifts the paradigm in what scientists expect to see in performance from an affordable one-to-three laser system. Cytek Northern Lights incorporates the same groundbreaking technologies as the Aurora system, allowing for a wide array of new fluorochrome combinations without reconfiguring your system for each application. The Northern Lights, with its easy-to-use workflow is the highly valuable full spectrum flow solution for everyday research applications.

SpectroFlo® software offers an intuitive workflow from QC to data analysis with technology-enabling tools that simplify running applications.

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High Value
 

Upgradeable from one laser and nine colors to three lasers and 24 colors, there is a Northern Lights configuration to fit your needs
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Remarkable Sensitivity
 

Sensitivity redefined using state-of-the-art optics and low-noise electronics
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Easy, Flexible, and Intuitive

One configuration for all assay, use any commercially available fluorochrome, intuitive software
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Low Cost of Ownership
 

Use fewer lasers to run more colors for greater cost savings and less setup time between experiments

Testimonials and Publications

Investigating Sample Heterogeneity
Hear from Anna Brooks, senior research fellow and director of Auckland Cytometry at the University of Auckland, about her experiences using the Cytek Aurora and Cytek Northern Lights cytometers in her research.
Adapting to Multiple Users Needs
Bridget McLaughlin, co-director of the Flow Cytometry Shared Resource Lab at the University of California Davis, shares her experiences bringing a Cytek full spectrum flow cytometer to her multi-user shared instrument facility.

Service Plan Comparison

Maintaining your cytometry equipment does not have to be prohibitively expensive. Cytek's service through technical excellence offers lab managers cost effective service plans, without sacrificing quality assurance.
Service Contract Types
The following on-site service contract types are available through Cytek®:

Value

Includes
  • Parts
  • Travel
  • Labor
  • Phone Support
  • 1 Maintenance Visit/Year
  • $750 deductible per emergency service visit.

Premium

Includes
  • Parts
  • Travel
  • Labor
  • Phone Support
  • 1 Maintenance Visit/Year
  • Guaranteed Response Time

Preventative Maintenance

Includes
  • Phone Support
  • 2 Maintenance Visits/Year
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  • All other parts and services billed at prevailing rate.

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Performance Data

Autofluorescence Extraction

The Northern Light system’s implementation of full spectrum flow cytometry enables the use of autofluorescence extraction to further improve data clarity. Certain sample types, such as yeast and tumor samples, present the challenge of high autofluorescence. For these challenging applications involving highly autofluorescent particles, let the software's autofluorescence extraction tool bring new levels of resolution. SEE POSTER

Cytek Northern Lights Full Spectrum Flow Cytometer Autofluorescence Extraction

Everyday Immunoprofiling

Full spectrum flow cytometry opens a wide range of new possibilities. The Northern Lights allows scientists to run complex multicolor experiments with as few as one or two lasers. The unique optical system enables the use of dyes with highly overlapping peak emissions without sacrificing resolution, translating to more flexibility in dye choice.
9 Colors
21 Colors
9 Colors

The one laser (488 nm) Cytek® Northern Lights can perform 9-color immunoprofiling assays with no sacrifice to data quality. In this 9-color blue laser excitable dyes panel, monocytes and several CD4 T cell and CD8 T cell subsets were easily identified.

Cytek Northern Lights Full Spectrum Data from Blue Excited Dyes
9-Colors Panel Dyes Emission Spectra
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21 Colors

With 30 fluorescence detectors and only 2 lasers (405 and 488 nm), the Cytek® Northern Lights enables multi-parametric data collection with few lasers to maintain. Cytek has developed a 21-color human immunophenotyping panel acquired from just a single tube, with outstanding resolution.

Blue Excited Dyes Emission Spectra
 
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Class 1 Laser Product.

For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.