Mar 3 2011
Syngene has introduced a new product called the blue-light transilluminator light box that enables accurate and safe viewing of fluorescently labeled proteins and DNA.
The transilluminator light box is compatible with all kinds of Syngene’s image capture systems and need not be utilized in darkroom.
Blue-light transilluminator light box
The transilluminator can illuminate dyes, which produce light at a wavelength range between 420 and 480 nm and thus is ideal for viewing nanogram quantities of protein stains such as ProQ Diamond (Invitrogen) and SYPRO Ruby as well as nontoxic DNA stains such as GelGreen (Biotium), SYBR Gold (Invitrogen), SYBR Green and SYBR Safe.
The visible blue light does not affect human eye and unlike ultraviolet light, does not photo-nick DNA. Researchers can easily see, image and remove protein or DNA bands from gels without harming the samples or themselves.
The transilluminator comes with a gel viewing area of 20×20 cm,, which is ideal for majority of lab applications. The device is also available with a gel viewing plate of 25×30 cm for viewing extra large gels or multiple gels. The equipment can illuminate bands of quantity as low as 0.01 ng with reduced exposure times. The blue light produces clear images with less background.