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C-Trap installation at B CUBE TU Dresden

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Second C-Trap™ installed in Dresden, Germany

The city of Dresden, Germany, is now the home of two C-Trap® systems! The latest installation took place at the Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering at TU Dresden, where the instrument became part of the Joint Technology Platform. Being operated in the "Molecular Imaging and Manipulation" facility, the system will be available to multiple…

j.yeh26 March 2019

AFS installation at Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia

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First AFS™ installed in Australia

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 has been shown that dysfunction of these ion channels contributes…

j.yeh12 March 2019

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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 CRISPR-Cas9 differentiates between on-targets and off-targets. They used the C-Trap®…

j.yeh8 March 2019

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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 surface imaging using TIRF; High throughput experimental workflow at the surface. Download the 2019…

j.yeh7 March 2019

New C-Trap® Installed at the University at Buffalo

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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 the formation and dynamics of membraneless organelles. Using their C-Trap…

j.yeh28 February 2019

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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 are involved in almost all cellular processes. This makes the…

Jerom Langeveld18 February 2019

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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 the Boston area. Do you notice the typical Dutch details…

j.yeh11 February 2019

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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 pull some cells loose from their substrate while other cells…

j.yeh25 January 2019

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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 the dynamic aspects of DNA replication and cytoskeleton-based processes,…

Jerom Langeveld13 December 2018

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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 allows the assessment of thousands of cell-cell and cell-ligand interactions…

j.yeh5 December 2018

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