The very first AFS™ Acoustic Force Spectroscopy-system in Australia has been successfully installed in the lab of Prof. Boris Martinac at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. Prof. Martinac and his team conduct research on cellular transduction processes associated with mechanosensitive ion channels. Although it … Read More
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New insights into Cas9 off-target activity
The paper “DNA stretching induces Cas9 off-target binding and cleavage” was just published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. Congratulations to all the authors! In this paper, scientists at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences and AstraZeneca studied how … Read More
Step into the unresolved with the Surface Assay Toolkit
During BPS19, we introduced the Surface Assay Toolkit! A unique assortment of new features that enable scientists to investigate the cytoskeleton from a whole new dynamic perspective. The Surface Assay Toolkit brings together the C-Trap™ and m-Trap™ optical tweezers with: Label-free surface imaging using IRM; Rapid fluorescent imaging in solution using Widefield; Fluorescence … Continue Reading
New insights on the formation and dynamics of membraneless organelles using C-Trap™
Congratulations to Dr. Priya R. Banerjee and his research group at University at Buffalo, who just published their paper in Biomolecules! In the paper titled “Molecular crowding tunes material states of ribonucleoprotein condensates” they investigated how entropic forces contribute to … Read More
C-Trap™ installed at UC Merced
A C-Trap™, optical tweezers coupled with fluorescence microscopy, has been successfully installed at the University of California, Merced. The system is shared by the research groups of Prof. Eva de Alba and Prof. Victor Muñoz. Their labs focus on the study of proteins, which … Continue Reading
LUMICKS Boston Office Opening
Last Friday we officially opened our own office in Boston! After some serious ribbon cutting, the US team celebrated this milestone with delicious food and champagne. We would like to warmly welcome you to stop by whenever you are in … Read More
The Scientist Magazine features z-Movi™
We couldn’t have put the essence of our z-Movi™ in better words than the author of this article in The Scientist: “Just as music pulls some folks to the dance floor while others remain stuck to their chairs, sound can now be used to … Continue Reading
C-Trap™ installed at TU Delft
We are thrilled about the recent C-Trap™ installation in the Department of Bionanoscience at the TU Delft, one of the leading universities in The Netherlands! The groups of Prof. Nynke Dekker and Prof. Marileen Dogterom will use the C-Trap to study … Read More
z-Movi featured in Science
Our latest product, the z-Movi™, has been featured in the latest issue of the journal Science! The z-Movi uses acoustic force manipulation to query the interaction strengths of cells with their cognate binding partners. It is based on a lab-on-a-chip assay that … Continue Reading
Single-Molecule Workshop at the Bustamante Lab (UC Berkeley)
The series of our successful single-molecule workshops continued on October 30 – November 1 at the Bustamante Lab (University of California, Berkeley). Both days started off with interesting seminars given by researchers from three top single-molecule labs. Dr. Shannon Yan (Bustamante Lab) presented … Read More