New Product Releases
The Prairie SGS-Mini-Scanner now on an Inverted Microscope
To meet the demands of researchers who need the inverted microscope platform to achieve their imaging goals, Prairie integrated the new SGS-mini-scanner with the Zeiss Axio Observer inverted microscope. Combining inverted imaging with the power of two-photon microscopy offers advantages in the fields of live cell and culture research:
- For standard live cell work that requires long imaging sessions, the longer wavelengths are great for preventing bleaching of the cells being imaged.
- For cell culture work, having the objective below the specimen allows observation of cells in a dish or on a coverslip without disturbing the culture as would be experienced with a standard upright dipping lens.
Additionally, two-photon imaging on an inverted system has been shown to help with overcoming challenges faced by researchers regarding organ movement during breathing, especially peritoneal organs (which can be difficult to image in vivo).
Please contact Prairie for more information and pricing on this system.
Aurora Family of Laser Launches
Automated Three-Channel Confocal: Multi-channel, multi-purpose confocal imaging
New GPIO Electronics with reduced-noise motors (via coupling high-current motor drive electronics directly to the motor)
Completed integration of Swept Field Confocal (SFC) scanner with Ultima uncaging: Now you can combine high frame rate image acquisition of the SFC with uncaging power of the Ultima
Substage Detection Module for the Ultima IV
DATA SPOTLIGHT
C. elegans embryo expressing B-tubulin GFP
Image courtesy of Koen Verbrugghe and Chris Malone, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Time-lapse recordings of tubulin GFP C. elegans embryos during mitosis.
One image was acquired every second with a 100x Super Fluor lens using the SFC.
Image courtesy of Kevin Eliceiri and Koen Verbrugghe, LOCI, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
