News for Leica TCS SP5 X

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06 October - 09 October 2009

In October 2009, Leica Microsystems CMS, Mannheim, Germany offers to Leica Microsystems confocal users from all over the world the opportunity to gain technical skills and know-how in advanced confocal microscopy techniques.

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Leica Microsystems in The Scientist's Top 10 – The Scientist presented the first-ever ranking of the best innovations to hit the life science market in 2008.

For the first time, The Scientist has acclaimed the ten most outstanding new products. In recognition of winning combinations of invention, vision and utility, The Scientist presented the first-ever ranking of the best innovations to hit the life science market in 2008. The award's expert panel of judges included Klaus Hahn, David Piston, Simon Watkins, and Steven Wiley, who together, have published more than 700 scholarly articles.

Conventional confocal instruments limit a researcher's choice of both fluorescent dyes and the experiments that can be performed with a confocal system. The Leica TCS SP5 X white laser confocal system, released in February 2008, features a white laser excitation source, which generates a continuum of excitation wavelengths, ranging from 470 to 670nm, from which up to eight simultaneous but distinct excitation lines can be selected!

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Leica TCSThe Scientist´s Article "Top innovations of 2008"

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According to The Scientist, the Leica TCS SP5 X Supercontinuum Confocal Microscope is one of the most innovative products on the Life Science market. The US American magazine had asked a panel of four scientists from various North American research institutions to choose the best product innovations of the year 2008. In its latest issue (2008/12), The Scientist now presents the ten winners – including the Leica TCS SP5 X which was launched on the North American market last February. The confocal microscope integrates a white light laser that provides users with the full spectrum of wavelengths between 470 and 670 nm for examining bacteria cultures, for example.

“Besides paying tribute to microscope technology in general, the award acknowledges the entire imaging system of Leica Microsystems with all its technical facets,” says Product Manager Scott Young. And this is what the jury had to say about the Leica TCS SP5 X: “The ability to readily vary laser lines across broad regions of the spectrum has major implications. This enables the use of previously inaccessible fluorophores, provides tremendous simplification for imaging systems, and could be very valuable for multiplex imaging applications.” Leica Microsystems combines a one-of-a-kind AOBS (acousto-optical beam splitter) for the excitation light and SP detector for various fluorescent dyes. This system allows the best use of the white light spectrum for confocal microscopy, without loss of light and with maximum sensitivity.

The monthly journal The Scientist has published a ranking of the best vendors of Life Science products for the last six years. To recognize winning combinations of invention, vision and utility, this year’s spotlight was on the ten best product innovations for the first time.