Affordable Tissue Culture Scope

March 06, 2015

University of Michigan, North Campus Research Complex
Internal Medicine
Admin Dir CSC Program

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Company:

Life Technologies

Product Name:

EVOS XL Core

Catalog Number:

AMEX1000

The EVOS XL Core digital microscope is an ergonomic, easy to use system for routine lab microscopy. Our EVOS XL Core microscope is used principally for mammalina cell culture and is equipped with a 3MP digi color camera. You will need to purchase a few stage adapters so you can readily image slides and various sizes of tissue culture plates.

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Application

Mammalian Tissue Culture

Starting Material

Human and Mouse Cells and Tissues Sections

Protocol Overview

Easily analyze your cells and capture images with one button, then upload to a USB drive to edit for your presentations or publications. Saves your data files as 16-bit TIFF or PNG or 24-bit color TIFF, PNG, JPG, BMP files.

Tips

Purchase a set of stage adapters so you can image cells growing in different sized plates.

Results Summary

We use this EVOS XL Core microsocope to image various mouse and human primary breast cancer cell lines and stem cell populations. We actually purchased our scope from the manufacturer AMG before Life Technologues purchased them. Thie EVOS XL Core scope is located in the Experimental Breast Cancer Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan. It has been in service with daily use for three years without any problems.

Features Summary

Easy to use, avoids having to squint through conventional microscope lenses, very cost effective for most labs

Additional Notes

12 inch LCD display

Image Gallery

Summary

The Good

Inexpensive, high quality optics, reproducible results, quality images in multiple formats

The Bad

Would like higher res camera for some applications

The Bottom Line

For the price you can't beat this excellent entry-level lab microscope for routine cell culture image analysis and capture.

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