Bruker has announced that two light-leaf microscopes of Luxendo MuVi ™ and LCS SPIM ™ have been installed by the Sloan Cancer Kettering Cancer Memory Center (MSK). Funding for the two light-leaf fluorescence microscopes was supported by Cycle for Survival. The new SPIM microscopes will help researchers see the cell and cell markers of cancer and translate those findings into better cancer treatments.
“By understanding how cells move to build organs, researchers can gain insight into why some cancer cells and lead to organ destruction,” said Dr. Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis , MSK Chair of the Developmental Biology Program. “Instruments like this are useful for imaging across plates of varying lengths – from subcellular to single cells to print-level processes – allowing researchers to study cell dynamics and cell movement, processes that allow cells to metastasize . ”
“Light-leaf fluorescence microscope has emerged as a highly powerful method for high-resolution, sample-locked and dynamic biological imaging,” said Dr. Lars Hufnagel, Vice President and General Manager of the Luxendo light-leaf microscopy industry at Bruker . “We couldn’t be happier that our technology will support researchers and major MSK programs in such important work.”
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