Acquisition of a Vilber Smart Imaging Newton 7.0 FT500

Description

The core facility for Flow Cytometry and Single cell Analysis is housed within the Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen. The facility was launched in 2010 by transferring the instruments from the department to the core facility. The core facility service app 500 users that take advantage of our instruments and have developed their protocols over the past 12 years to fit our instrumentation. Lot 1: We are planning to buy a Newton 7.0 FT500 as replacement of a 12 year old PerkinElmer IVIS instrument owned by the department and used to service more than 100 independent users. The key - and therefore unique - factor is the f/0.70 aperture in the instrument, which no other company can provide. We need an instrument with as wide an aperture as possibly, since several of our users are looking for early metastasis and a low aperture will help to collect more light and thus increase the sensitivity of the instrument.