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LUMICKS z-Movi^® installed at Charité to measure TCR avidity in T cell therapy research

We are excited to announce the installation of a z-Movi® Cell Avidity Analyzer at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin! The z-Movi will be used by the research team led by Dr. Matthias Leisegang, Juniorprofessor at the Institute of Immunology. This unique instrument measures the interaction strength between target tumor cells and effector…

Adrià Ferragut1 June 2021

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Regensburg Center for Interventional Immunology adopts LUMICKS’ z-Movi^® Cell Avidity Analyzer

In its effort to develop effective cellular immunotherapies for cancer treatment, the Regensburg Center for Interventional Immunology (RCI) in Germany has purchased LUMICKS’ z-Movi®. The placement highlights the promise of measuring cell avidity between immune cells and their tumor targets to improve the selection of CARs and accelerate the development…

j.yeh26 May 2021

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New insights into the dynamics of initial replisome assembly uncovered by the C-Trap^®

In a recent article published in Nature Communications, Sanchez et al. successfully employed LUMICKS’ C-Trap® to discover new insights into the molecular dynamics of initial replisome formation. In a collaborative effort between Prof. Dekker (TU Delft) and Prof. Diffley (Francis Crick Institute) laboratories, the scientists uncovered that origin recognition complex…

j.yeh18 May 2021

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LUMICKS to return COVID-related relief funding to Dutch and US governments

LUMICKS, a leading next generation life science tools company renowned for its innovative platforms for Dynamic Single-Molecule and Cell Avidity analysis, announces that it has made the decision to return the COVID-related relief funding it received in both the Netherlands and the United States. During 2020, LUMICKS received a total…

j.yeh18 May 2021

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Three C-Trap^® systems installed in the US East Coast

We are excited to share that three more institutes on the US East Coast are now equipped with a C-Trap® Optical Tweezers – Fluorescence Microscope! The three new instruments are now housed at a new core facility at MSKCC, at the NanoSystems Laboratory at the OSU, and at the UPMC-Hillman Cancer…

j.yeh17 May 2021

C-Trap® installed at Imperial College London, UK

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LUMICKS DSM technologies installed in South East UK

We are happy to share our news about the most recent C-Trap® and m-Trap® installations in the UK! We’ll start with the recently installed C-Trap system at the MRC-London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London that is used by the cell biologists and biochemists at the group of Prof. Luis…

Adrià Ferragut4 May 2021

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LUMICKS Raises $93 Million in Series D Financing

Backed by global investor syndicate led by new investors Farallon Capital Management and Lauxera Capital Partners along with Softbank Fund 2, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Parian Global Management, Gilde Healthcare, Pura Vida Investments, and Irving Investors. Amsterdam, the Netherlands – April 16, 2021 – LUMICKS,…

j.yeh15 April 2021

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Highly reproducible single-molecule analysis of transient structures of native proteins using m-Trap^® dual optical tweezers combined with Raman spectroscopy

A recent publication by Dai et al. in Nature Communications presents an optical tweezers-coupled Raman spectroscopy platform providing tuneable and reproducible surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) measurements. By combining a Raman microscope with the dual-trap optical tweezers and microfluidic flow chamber of the m-Trap®, the scientists were able to characterize three…

j.yeh8 April 2021

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Measure interaction strength between target cell and TCR T-cell in HPV-related cancers with the z-Movi^®

In a recent review article in Immunology, Fakhr et al. presented the z-Movi® Cell Avidity Analyzer as a solution to characterize T-cell populations by measuring the binding strength between immune and cancer cells using non-invasive acoustic force. Binding events between a T-cell and its target cell determine the initiation of…

Adrià Ferragut26 March 2021

C-Trap® installed at University of Groningen, NL

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New C-Trap^® installation at the University of Groningen opens avenues for investigating the conformational cycle of chaperone proteins

We are thrilled to announce the installation of a C-Trap® at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, in the lab of Dr. Katarzyna (Kasia) Tych. The installed C-Trap combines optical tweezers with 3-color fluorescence microscopy, which the team will use to investigate protein stabilities, molecular chaperoning, and conformational regulation. They plan…

Adrià Ferragut23 March 2021

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