CryoStar™ NX50 Cryostat
Get optimal sectioning quality and unmatched ergonomics and safety with the Thermo Scientific™ CryoStar™ NX50, designed to accommodate the needs of the routine clinical laboratory. This manual cryostat offers a form-fitting design, with optional height adjustment, cold disinfection, and vacutome.The CryoStar NX50 Cryostat follows in the footsteps of the popular CryoStar NX70 Cryostat by offering standard features well-suited…
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Sectioning frozen tissue
This particular cryostat works amazingly and greatly speeds up my work.
Review Date: 9 Sept 2018 | Thermo Fisher Scientific
Get optimal sectioning quality and unmatched ergonomics and safety with the Thermo Scientific™ CryoStar™ NX50, designed to accommodate the needs of the routine clinical laboratory.
This manual cryostat offers a form-fitting design, with optional height adjustment, cold disinfection, and vacutome.
The CryoStar NX50 Cryostat follows in the footsteps of the popular CryoStar NX70 Cryostat by offering standard features well-suited to the routine clinical histology laboratory.
CryoStar™ NX50 Cryostat Features:
- Spacious stainless steel chamber for workflow organization
- Optional vacutome for stretching cryosections
- Chamber cooling to -25°±2°C (at 20°C ambient)
- Separate specimen head cooling to -43°±2°C (at 20°C ambient)
- Continuously cooled knife holder to -27°±2°C (at 20°C ambient)
- Eighteen cryobar storage positions, including one quick freeze location
- Integrated peltier fast freezing device with rapid cooling to -57°±3°C
- Section thickness from 0.5μm to 500μm
- Precise stepping motor blade advance for minimal vibration when sectioning
- Vertical stroke length of 64mm
- Horizontal feed range of 48mm
- Specimen retraction of ;20μm on return stroke, with optical indication
- Adjustable sample orientation, 8° in the Y axis for increased stability and 360° rotation in the z axis
- Rapid Response object head temperature control, form-fitting design and color, touch screen user interface for control of instrument functions
- Optional height adjustment from 82-112cm allows for sectioning while sitting or standing and accommodates users of different heights quickly
- Optional Cold Disinfection disinfects the cold cryochamber in just 50 minutes