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GFP Flashlight - less than $150, with your choice of filter glasses style! You can easily screen your GFP transgenic experiments or search for novel fluorescent organisms with a simple and cost-effective fluorescence-inducing flashlight and a pair of barrier filter glasses. The NightSea BlueStar uses a high-intensity LED in combination with a custom interference filter to provide effective fluorescence excitation. Any of the NightSea Filter Glasses serve to block the reflected excitation light and pass only the fluorescence with high contrast. [Have you gotten here and don't know what GFP is? Click here to find out!] The NightSea GFP flashlight is already in use in many laboratories around the world. Take a look at the list of research institutions using NightSea equipment for GFP and other research.
Success stories - just a few of many The research group of Prof. Stefan Offermanns, University of Heidelberg, is using the light to screen transgenic mouse embryos. A member of the group says "We have tried the GFP-lamp on mice embryos and it works perfectly. We could immediately select transgenic embryos without 2-days genetic analysis."
Dr. Merab Kokaia at Lund University Hospital in Sweden is successfully using the BlueStar and filter glasses to identify GFP in the retina of young adult transgenic mice (about 3-4 weeks old) by illuminating their eyes in the dark. It is no problem at all to distinguish them from wild-type mice.
Dr. Kerri Warren of Roger Williams University is using the BlueStar plus visor glasses to screen developing zebrafish that have been modified so that their vasculature is fluorescent. The flashlight enables her to rapidly check her specimens without having to put them under the fluorescence microscope. References - papers that cite the use of the NightSea GFP flashlight Hou et al., 2007. Transgenic RNAi Depletion of Claudin-16 and the Renal Handling of Magnesium. J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 23, 17114-17122 - light used to screen and identify transgenic founder mice and their progeny.
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