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The new Roche Lightcycler 480 real-time PCR system (HTC) allows 96-well and 384-well QRT-PCR analysis in microtiter plate format. It is compatible with automation systems and LIMS strategies (with built-in bar code readers for sample tracking). Futhermore, the instrument will allow multiplexed analysis with 5 excitation filters and 6 detection filters. The 96-well and 384-well thermoblocks are interchangeable and allow flexibility in throughput.

The Dimension 3100 AFM is an instrument capable of imaging specimens with a horizontal and vertical resolution down to a fraction of a nanometer. The instrument works by measuring the deflection produced by a sharp tip on micron-sized cantilever as it scans across the surface of the specimen. Sample sizes that can be handled by the instrument range from small pieces to 150 mm diameter wafers.

AFM measures the atomic level forces between a sharp probing tip attached to a cantilever spring and a sample surface. AFM is particularly attractive to cell biologists as it can yield high resolution spatial images of live cells under near physiological conditions as well as evaluate the physical parameters in biological materials, such as material properties and binding forces.

The AFM CP-II probes the surface of a material with a sharp tip, which is a few microns long and less than 10nm in diameter. It is essentially a profiler with unprecedented 3-D resolutions.