live cell imaging

10 Jul 2018

Tecan's Spark reader aids research into rare skin disease

By Staff Writer

Researchers at the University Hospital of Salzburg’s EB House Austria are using a Tecan Spark ® multimode reader to investigate epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare inherited disease that causes the skin to become ‘as fragile as a butterfly’s wings’, blistering in response to friction or trauma. Dr Verena Wally, group leader of small molecules research,...

21 Sep 2015

Cutting-edge Olympus Xcellence

By Staff Writer

Olympus has a highly versatile range of cutting-edge research microscope systems. The Xcellence line covers advanced live cell techniques such as real-time high-speed imaging, TIRFM & HILO (cell-TIRF), photo control such as FRAP, FLIP and photo activation (cell-FRAP), and laser spinning disc confocal (cell-SPIN). More importantly, the Olympus Xcellence range takes these techniques to the...