LUMICKS completed installations of a u-Flux™ and an AFS™ system at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, where these instruments will be used for single-molecule measurements.
In an international consortium with 4 other parties, LUMICKS was granted the prestigious Horizon 2020 Future Emerging Technologies (FET) Open grant for early-stage research on new technology. The goal is to develop a next generation instrument that allows for "Super-resolution visualisation and manipulation of metaphase chromosomes". Chromosomes are the complex of…
LUMICKS received a €250.000 loan from the ministry of education to finance ‘go-to-market’ activities.. Listen to the interview with CEO Olivier Heyning on Dutch radio BNR here. Minister of science and education Dekker personally visited LUMICKS to learn about the technological developments and market potential for the Tweezers-Fluorescence in its…
In a recent publication, Correlative Tweezers-Fluorescence Microscopy was used to reveal a fundamental step in one of the most crucial biological process that occur in a cell: DNA repair. The article appeared in the renowned journal PNAS, and was portrayed on the Dutch newspaper Bionieuws. In their work, VU researchers…