Air Veil™ Incubator
Reproducible Science Requires A Better Incubator
Do you know how many times your incubator door opens every day? Do you know how much the temperature, humidity, and gas concentrations change each time this happens? Most incubators require nearly an hour to recover humidity, and even the best and most expensive incubators take several minutes to “recover” the CO2/O2, and that’s just to 90% of set point. Understanding this limit is important because even the slightest changes in the tissue culture incubator environment can directly affect cellular viability, proliferation, differentiation, and other functions. At molecular and cellular levels, this phenomenon translates directly to altered gene expression and changes in cellular activity. Furthermore, open doors allow for the introduction of airborne contaminants, a common problem in tissue culture environments. These perpetuated inconsistencies in cell culture contribute to the experimental irreproducibility crisis.
Introducing the Air Veil™ Incubator 
Based on a unique platform technology and computational fluid dynamics-based modeling, Embrient has engineered and patented an ideal CO2/O2 incubator design that significantly improves tissue culture reliability and function, while reducing the total cost of ownership. The company’s proprietary design eliminates the many inherent problems found in continuous flow incubators presently on the market.
The Air Veil™ incubator is designed with dual air barriers working in tandem with an outer and inner chamber to keep the environment in the inner chamber from seeing any unwanted perturbations. The innovative air curtain technology and clever air pathing isolates the culture chamber from the environment, particularly when the door is opened for inspection and accessing samples.
While traditional incubators can have recovery times as low as 6 to 10 minutes to 90% of setpoint, they exhibit recovery times as long as 60 minutes for conditions like humidity. The Air Veil sidesteps this issue by using a pair of air curtains as a barrier that preserves the inner chamber’s environment while preventing contamination. Our patented solutions to these issues reduce recovery times to nearly zero, allowing an investigator to leave the door open for extended periods without concern for environmental changes or contamination.
Coming Soon…
The Air Veil™ incubator was developed through a $2.1M FastTrack NIH grant, and is currently in pre-production, expected to launch in spring of 2026. Contact us with any inquiries, get a quote, or sign up if you would like to join our mailing list to stay up-to-date on news about the Air Veil Incubator and other updates from Embrient.