January 2010 Europe Cover Picture and Story
January 2010 Europe Cover Picture and Story
COVER STORY
The cover is a fluorescence image of Vero monkey epithelial cells with MitoTracker Red for mitochondria, DAPI (blue) for nuclei, and vesicles tagged with GFP-fusion protein (green), visualised with the new Olympus FSX100 fluorescence all-in-one microscope.
The FSX100 enables even the most inexperienced users to create high-end research images. By coupling high quality microscopy and imaging components with precision automation and advanced software, the Olympus FSX100 offers a simplified workflow so that users can obtain high quality images by simply: loading their sample; defining their observation mode and regions of interest (ROI); and then capturing their images.
All components are motorised and controlled via the interactive software, ensuring that functions such as focusing, exposure, fluorescence wavelength selection and even coverslip thickness correction are automated. As a result the user does not have to touch the microscope at all and can perform advanced imaging processes such as time-lapse, Z-stacks and multi-image alignments with ease. Due to the compact and self-contained design of the FSX100, it can be placed on the bench at the point of discovery, or easily transported to wherever it is needed. Furthermore, the stage is completely enclosed and therefore provides full darkroom facilities, ensuring maximum imaging sensitivity.
The FSX100 has a broad magnification range of 17x - 80x, enabled by its advanced UIS2 optics, including an SAPO 40x (NA 0.95) objective. The three pre-installed fluorescence filter cubes cover a wide range of dyes with illumination provided by metal-halide burner with a 2,000-hour lifespan. A highly stable LED illumination system can also be used to provide consistent brightfield and phase contrast illumination with a 16,000-hour lifespan.
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