Geraint Wilde

Workshop Room 4B

In response to fluorescence microscopy being increasingly used by researchers as a routine experimental tool and wanting to facilitate easier access to higher-end performance technology, a couple of years ago Andor introduced the BC43 a high-performance high-speed confocal benchtop microscope to the market. Having been enthusiastically received by the research community we are taking a step further, making the Andor Benchtop microscope even more accessible depending on needs and/or budget, adding new high-end technical capabilities, whilst strictly maintaining the ease-of-use ethos of the BC43.

The result is a NEW Benchtop Microscope range offering an entry level widefield epifluorescence model which can then extend its capabilities to:

Higher-quality haze-free images and 3D imaging of relatively thin samples like cell cultures, tissue sections, some microbiology models.
Confocal, through an in-field upgrade, extending the imaging capabilities to deep haze-free 3D imaging in samples like organoids, slice cultures, cleared tissue and small model organisms (e.g. Zebrafish, c.Elegans, drosophila).
Super-resolution delivering 2.5x to 2.8x resolution improvement (depending on widefield or confocal comparison) for more detailed investigations into cellular anatomy, subcellular structure and some microbiology models.

This benchtop microscope platform can more readily scale to different budgets, offer more affordable, and hopefully attainable, upgrade paths to track the imaging demands of evolving research projects such as moving to more challenging multicellular models or resolving in more detail. In its full capacity the BC43 Benchtop Microscope becomes a comprehensive multiscale imaging solution retaining its all-important ease-of-use.

Join us as we introduce the new models and demonstrate their capabilities.

A New Flexible Benchtop Microscope Range with Super-resolution Capabilities: Scaling Biology and Growing with Research Needs