Tile scanning mode for the Zeiss 710 confocal now includes the capability to assign an overlap percentage for seamless stitching of tiled images. This feature corrects slight offset and misalignment that formerly could be detected between individual tile scanned fields.

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A new, more powerful workstation has been added to the Zeiss 710 confocal system. This 64-bit, Windows 7 system offers faster processing speed and 16GB of RAM. Zen software version 2012 is now in use on this CPU.

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A 50 mW handheld blue laser (447 nm) is now located in the confocal suite. This device excites green fluorescent proteins such as GFP with fluorescent emission of 480-750 nm observed using the Thor Labs LG2 protective glasses. Use the handheld laser to genotype your transgenic organism by eye before dissection/mounting for confocal observation, or use it as…

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