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| JENA/Germany, 01.08.2002. The LSM 510 META Laser Scanning Microscope from Carl Zeiss is one of this year's winners of the renowned R&D 100 Awards granted every year by the R&D Magazine. Every year, this US magazine with a monthly circulation of 90,000 copies awards the "Oscar of inventions" to the 100 most important technical products launched worldwide. Thanks to a new confocal detection technique in fluorescence microscopy, the LSM 510 META - developed by Carl Zeiss and the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA – opens up experimental possibilities which seemed totally unattainable in the past. The LSM 510 META has been designed for applications in almost all biomedical research disciplines, from cell biology to the neurosciences and cytogenetics. In all, this is already the 10th R&D 100 Award that Carl Zeiss has received. The centerpiece of the system is a multichannel detector which not only records brightness distributions in the examined specimen, but also the spectral composition of fluorescence light in each of the scanned object spots. This technique now permits the simultaneous localization of considerably more fluorescence dyes than ever before. Dye combinations not usable in the past can now be used for specimen marking. In particular, the LSM 510 META allows strongly overlapping fluorescence emission spectra, such as those of the fluorescent proteins CFP, GFP and YFP, to be precisely and efficiently sorted into separate image channels by means of digital deconvolution algorithms.  Gudrun Vogel Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH Press Officer Microscopes and Systems, Optical Systems and Components Phone: +49 3641 64-2770 Fax: +49 3641 64-2941 E-Mail: 
g.vogel@zeiss.deCarl Zeiss Mikroskopsysteme 07740 Jena Dr. Bernhard Zimmermann Tel.: 03641 64 2414 Fax: 03641 64 3144 E-Mail: mikro@zeiss.de Number: J23/02 MI Number of Words: 248 Number of Characters: 1685 |
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