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Biopolis Shared Facilities and Carl Zeiss Announce Strategic Partnership and Collaboration
SINGAPORE – 14 September 2009. The Biopolis Shared Facilities (BSF) of the Biomedical Sciences Institutes (BMSI), Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR) has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, a global market leader in microscopy solutions and systems for research, laboratories, routine and industrial applications.
The MoU formalizes a strategic partnership and collaboration which brings technology and scientific mind together to further boost life science research and education to the future generations in the science community.
The BSF Advanced Microscopic Imaging Laboratory is already equipped with a number of ZEISS high-end microscopy systems such as the High Speed Line Scanning 5LiveDuo that is being used in a variety of life science research projects and in supporting the Biopolis Scientific Community.
In this partnership, Carl Zeiss will work closely with the BSF Advanced Imaging Laboratory to introduce cutting edge technology to the Biopolis research community with systems on a rotational basis.. In the coming year, Carl Zeiss will equip the facility with two million-dollar light microscopy systems; the SR-SIM (Superresolution Structured Illumination Microscopy) and PAL-M (Photoactivated Localization Microscopy) for scientists to work with their experiments.
"This partnership will allow scientists at BSF to experience state of the art imaging capabilities, using the finest research equipment in Singapore" said Ven Raman, Managing Director of Carl Zeiss S.E.Asia & India.
“This MOU with Carl Zeiss marks a new milestone in BSF’s development. Having high-end equipment is only one part of the equation. We wish to harness all the advanced features and capabilities residing in the equipment that we have so that our customers can benefit from them. More importantly this collaboration with Carl Zeiss will enable our scientists to access the latest innovations to advance the research being done at Biopolis,” said Dr. Manjeet Singh, Deputy Director, BSF.
“This is an exciting collaboration which will help bring leading edge technology and know how to researchers in the Biopolis” said Dr. Sohail Ahmed, Principal Investigator, Institute of Medical Biology (IMB), A*STAR, and Scientific Advisor to the BSF Advanced Imaging Laboratory.
Opening up New Dimensions in Scientific Research
Used by leading companies and research institutions around the world, Carl Zeiss’ products provide engineers, scientists and medical researchers with the ability to “see” and identify the most minute component of any substance or element.
For example, the newly introduced SR-SIM and PAL-M open up the nano-world for cell biology to address many fundamental questions and to explore down to the molecular level, revealing structures at an unprecedented accuracy and detail resolution.
One of the major benefits of SR-SIM is the enlargement of spatial resolution in all three dimensions, made possible by projecting a special illumination pattern onto the specimen. This permits the imaging of any fluorophore with a lateral resolution of approximately 120 nanometers. The technique SR-SIM, which is compatible with standard specimen preparation techniques, allows the examination of model organisms now generally used in biomedical research.
The PAL-M technique enables a new dimension in fluorescence microscopy because cell structures can be observed with a resolution of about 20 nanometers for the first time. This is an order of magnitude higher than conventional fluorescence techniques. As a single molecule imaging method, it opens completely new dimensions of quantitative analysis of complex biological specimens.
Press contact at Carl Zeiss, Singapore
Mandy Wong
Regional MarComms and PR Manager
Phone: +65 6741 9600
Fax: +65 6842 4774
Email: m.wong@zeiss.com.sg
Internet: www.zeiss.com.sg
Press contact at Biopolis Shared Facilities, The Biomedical Sciences Institutes
Sean Koh
Manager, Business Development
Phone: +65 6407 0132
Fax: +65 6478 9012
Email: sean_koh@bsf.a-star.edu.sg
Internet: www.bsf.a-star.edu.sg
PI No.: 1409-2009-ENG
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