Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Zeiss presented PALM MicroBeam (Positioning and Ablation with Laser Microbeams) Laser for scientists working in pharmaceutical industry, life science research, and in forensics and plant research. With this new microscopy invention those fragile living cells will have maximum protection from exposure and bleaching. PALM MicroBeam was built upon the Zeiss Axio Observer inverted microscope. It uses a technology for contamination-free specimen acquisition. It was said that PALM is the only instrument able to do simultaneous visualization and microdissection under multichannel fluorescence illumination and extended focus.