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u-Flux™ Microfluidics System Updated with Improved Pressure Box

LUMICKS is proud to announce the release of the upgraded u-Flux™ microfluidics system. This version of the u-Flux™ includes an improved pressure box, which allows the user to readily and easily perform single-molecule experiments in a laminar flow environment. Not only has the whole design been revamped, but has LUMICKS’…

Jerom Langeveld4 October 2016

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Interactions between Single Fibrin Fibers are Measured for the First Time

Cells and tissue change their structural properties to cope with large strains e.g. caused by blood flow and external stress. Understanding microstructural remodeling of the extracellular matrix requires knowledge of biological events down to the smallest scale. One of the mechanisms involved in this process is the formation of fibrin…

Jerom Langeveld20 September 2016

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Paper Using LUMICKS Technology Published in Nature

Great news: Another paper using LUMICKS technology was published, this time in Nature! Congratulations to the authors. Several are now part of LUMICKS. In the study “Sliding sleeves of XRCC4-XLF bridge DNA and connect fragments of broken DNA” Brouwer et al. describe how XRCC4 and XLF proteins play a crucial role…

Jerom Langeveld21 July 2016

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Two New AFS™ Modules Assembled

After recent assembly of two new C-Trap® systems, this week two new Acoustic Force Spectroscopy (AFS™) Modules were finished. The AFS™ Module can be used in combination with commercial inverted optical microscopes, allowing the user to manipulate hundreds of biomolecules in parallel. Follow us on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on…

Jerom Langeveld24 June 2016

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Study using CTFM Published in Nature Communications

A new paper using the correlative optical tweezers-fluorescence microscopy (CTFM) technology has recently been published in Nature Communications. King, Peterman & Wuite show in "Unravelling the structural plasticity of stretched DNA under torsional constraint" that in torsionally constraint DNA concomitant basepair melting and helical unwinding can occur at forces >~50…

Jerom Langeveld15 June 2016

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Two More C-Trap^® Systems are Ready for Shipment

Last week the assembly of two new C-Trap® systems was finished. We are really excited about the experiments the new users will be performing on the correlative optical tweezers and fluorescence microscopy system. Don't want to miss out on LUMICKS' latest news? Follow us now on LinkedIn!

Jerom Langeveld14 June 2016

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CTFM Workshop at BIOCEV a Great Success

The latest workshop on correlative optical tweezers and fluorescence microscopy (CTFM) was a great success. On June 8 and 9 the participants joined the hands-on workshop and were updated on the latest developments on CTFM at BIOCEV in Prague. Interested in attending the next workshop? Register now on our workshop…

Jerom Langeveld10 June 2016

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AFS™ 2.0 Paper Published in Methods

The second paper on the Acoustic Force Spectroscopy (AFS™) technology has been published in Methods. In "Tuning the Music: Acoustic Force Spectroscopy (AFS) 2.0" Kamsma and his colleagues at VU University Amsterdam describe the latest developments on the technology. In the paper a theoretical model to optimize the AFS™ cell…

Jerom Langeveld5 June 2016

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LUMICKS Delivers C-Trap^® to BIOCEV Prague

In January 2016 LUMICKS installed a C-Trap® Correlative Optical Tweezers Fluorescence microscope at the BIOCEV Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre of the Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Vestec. Acquired by the research group of Dr. Zdeněk Lánský, the C-Trap® is used to study molecular motors and structural proteins that…

Jerom Langeveld14 February 2016