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CyGEL™ immobilisation in practice

Using CyGEL™ to immobilise fluorescent beads

The time-lapse pictures below‡ illustrate how fluorescent beads are effectively immobilised using CyGEL, allowing for the simple and accurate calibration of optical instrumentation in X, Y and Z orientations. The same can be achieved with cells.

CyGEL Immobilising Beads

The formulation of CyGEL provided by Biostatus in phosphate buffered saline (PBS), also conveniently allows the user to immobilise BOTH beads and LIVE cells for accurate calibration and analysis.

‡ The colours shown represent the new positions of the beads in each image, where white is the original position at 0 sec. As can be seen, the CyGEL mounted beads do not move.