Versatile Dyversity System at Leading European Cancer Research Centre Rapidly Analyses Fluorescent and Chemiluminescent Proteins with Ease

Researchers at The Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute (CRI) are using a Dyversity system to accurately analyse fluorescent and chemiluminescent Western blots labelled with various Qdot®s and ECL respectively. They are also using the system to image agarose gels containing DNA stained with SYBR® Safe DNA gel stain. The information from the gels and blots is being used to map genes and proteins associated with cancers and is helping scientists at the CRI to provide data, which could lead to the development of new therapies for these life threatening diseases.

The Dyversity system installed at the CRI contains a high-resolution 16 bit, CCD camera with intelligent control software specifically for chemiluminescence. Additionally, their system has a computer controlled lens that moves simultaneously with the motorised sample stage. This ensures the Dyversity can quickly focus to produce high quality images with perfect contrast, without any of the time consuming trial and error imaging usually associated with capturing images of chemiluminescent blots.