Press releases

We are excited to announce that LUMICKS has entered into a collaboration with Glycostem Therapeutics, the Netherlands, to improve immunotherapeutic drug development. By quantifying binding strength between immune and cancer cells using the unique z-Movi® Cell Avidity Analyzer, Glycostem exploits the predictiveness of avidity in finding the best NK-cell population…

On September 16 we celebrated the grand opening of its new headquarters in Amsterdam. Ingrid van Engelshoven, Dutch minister of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) performed the opening ceremony by cutting a DNA molecule using a laser beam. The new headquarters of LUMICKS are in an old bicycle factory, situated…

The center will be based around LUMICKS’ C-Trap® optical tweezers–fluorescence microscope, which for the first time enables real-time observation and probing of biomolecular interactions. The approach will be pioneered in several pharmacology and biology assays with the aim of accelerating the discovery of potential new drugs.

On February 17 we introduced our new generation of the C-Trap® optical tweezers-fluorescence microscope and AFS™ Acoustic Force Spectroscopy system at the 62ndAnnual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in San Francisco. The new generation represents an evolution of LUMICKS’ original instruments, which set the benchmark for high-resolution and high-throughput single-molecule…