Next-generation confocal systems spearhead unequalled array of microscopes and imaging systems on Carl Zeiss stand

On MicroScience’s largest stand (J6), Carl Zeiss will demonstrate the new LSM 710 confocal microscope and LSM 710 NLO module, which define new standards in laser scanning and multiphoton microscopy. These all-new microscopes boast a more than doubling in sensitivity and unequalled signal-to-noise performance that will enable users to examine fluorescently-labelled biological systems, including thick living tissue samples, in more detail than ever before.

The LSM 710 has eight laser ports and uses spectral recycling to increase the efficiency of the spectral splitting of the fluorescence emissions to almost 100%. The QUASAR detector is more sensitive and flexible than any detector previously released on the market and may be configured with 2, 3 or 34 channels enabling spectral imaging from 350 to 1100 nm. A new application is raster image correlation spectroscopy for the study of the intracellular diffusion of fluorophores between the nucleus and cytoplasm at microsecond resolution.

The LSM 710 spearheads an unparalleled array of microscopes and imaging systems, including upright, inverted, stereo, confocal and multiphoton microscopes, laser microdissection and laser microtweezer systems, whole-slide scanning and tele-pathology systems, image analysis software and digital cameras. Zeiss will also show the MICROM range of tissue processing equipment and associated consumables.