MooScan turns the udder's own immune response into an optical signal — quantifying neutrophil activity in raw milk to read inflammation directly, not infer it from a cell count.
When an udder is inflamed, the milk fills with activated immune cells. Their activation state — not merely their number — is the signal that matters clinically.
A simple reagent reaction converts neutrophil activity into light a sensor can count.
A 2 ml sample of raw milk is placed into a 35 mm plate with dried luminol reagent.
Luminol reacts with reactive oxygen species from activated neutrophils, emitting light.
A high-sensitivity sensor in a heated dark chamber measures the light emission.
Emission rate maps to neutrophil activation — and therefore udder inflammation — in ~30 seconds.
The MooScan desktop unit is a real, dark-chamber measurement device — not a concept. Multiple prototype generations have run live comparative measurements on raw milk.
An inline variant has been scoped for robotic milking stations, using off-the-shelf fluidics to sample the main milk channel automatically.
| Form factor | Dark-chamber benchtop, ~25 × 20 × 14 cm |
| Sensor | High-sensitivity light detector |
| Sample tray | 35 mm plates, up to 38 mm samples |
| Sample volume | 2 ml of raw milk |
| Measurement time | ~30 seconds per sample |
| Consumable cost | ~$0.5 / sample (plate) |
| Dynamic range | Tens to tens of millions of photons / second |
We'll walk you through the bench results, the reference-standard comparison, and the pilot protocol.