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It's a Microscope in a Box

Hello from Bulldog Bio!

 

And welcome to 2012.  This looks to be a year of great promise for the US research community.  Congress has committed to across the board increases for the NIH, NSF, CDC and FDA.  Though not large in percentage, these increases buck the trend of many government agencies and continue to place the hopes of future economic recovery on the discoveries made in the field of life science research.  We see some very exciting products making their way through our partners' R&D pipeline that may be just the tool you'll need for your own break-throughs.  Read below about the LumaScope, the smallest and most affordable microscope you've ever seen.

Best in Show - LumaScope Fluorescent Live Cell Microscope

 

The LumaScope was developed from a simple concept -- can a research-grade fluorescence microscope be manufactured for  labs in remote, and often less well off, countries?  The solution required maintaining image quality and reliability standards for warm and hot "open air lab spaces" -- while not busting the lab budget.  The LumaScope has succeeded by eliminating all superfluous design elements. It focused instead on the use of solid-state technologies to provide surprisingly powerful image resolution.  This single-channel fluorescence microscope comes with a 10x, 20x or 40x objective.  Being designed for open-air labs in Southeast Asia and Latin America, it has no problem handling the equally hot and humid environment of a cell culture incubator.  And it is so compact that you can fit four into a standard cell culture incubator, making it an ideal tool for previously impossible live cell imaging experiments.  If you think this clever device might be useful in your lab, give us a jingle and we'd be eager to discuss evaluation and pricing.

 

Advantages

  • Small and robust enough for cell incubator use
  • Flexible options and accessories
  • Image quality of scopes that cost 5X more
  • Priced around $5K
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    Incubators for $275

     

    Throw Me a Bone

     

    We've heard your pleas to extend our super low pricing on our molecular biology products, so we're extending the special promotion on our Maxime PCR premixes, West-one chemiluminescence spray and eMyco Mycoplasma Detection Kits.  We're also reintroducing our super low pricing on bench-top incubators & shakers and electrophoresis systems. 

     

     

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    Microscopes have evolved over the past five years. Have your experiments kept pace? With the cost and reliability of solid state imaging and illumination components improving in recent years, it's no wonder that these are being adopted by many microscope producers to create better and cheaper systems.  The LED technology has created a great alternative to mercury arc lamps and lasers.  Less expensive and far more reliable than either, the only drawback is the intensity and range of wavelengths.  These are quickly being resolved by newer, brighter chips in an ever increasing variety of colors.  On the detection side, CCD have been the gold standard for electronic imaging components.  In recent years, CMOS detectors have become a darling of systems engineers as the inherent low noise and low cost make it a smart choice for many applications. Both technologies have merits, and the choice for the microscope is really dependent upon intended applications.  Many microscopes have dispensed with eyepieces and have instead introduced external monitors for visualizing images.  Often these displays are integrated into the microscope, but in some instances can be located remotely for situational imaging opportunities, such as in a cell culture incubator.

     

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    Every calendar quarter we give away 30 scientist bobble heads to subscribers to The Barker who correctly answer a riddle or logic problem. If you know the answer to the Q1 (January, February March) challenge, click here for a chance to win a free Pillars of Science bobble head. 

     

    We are changing the pace a bit for this quarter's puzzle by challenging you with our first rebus.  For those of you not familiar, a rebus uses pictures to represent words or parts of words.  In this case the rebus below represents a 3-letter word.  Good luck, and as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, or in this case a single 3-letter word.