BioProbes 72—Special Imaging Issue

Essential Knowledge Briefing: Live-Cell Imaging

Although prepared slides reveal many details about biological specimens, they always leave you with questions: How does this look when it’s alive? How does the organism or molecular component behave in a dynamic natural context? How does it interact with its environment? These questions are at the heart of live-cell imaging. In its most basic form, live-cell imaging allows biologists to examine and analyze live samples. This capability completely changes what can be learned about cell and organismal functions and ultimately determines how that information can be applied in fields as diverse as basic research, biotechnology, and medicine.

Published by Wiley, this Essential Knowledge Briefing (EKB) introduces readers to the general field of live-cell imaging. It explains the fundamental challenges and solutions, describes applications of live-cell imaging through case studies, and forecasts some of the next advances.

Download the Essential Knowledge Briefing: Live-Cell Imaging

Molecular Probes Flow Cytometry Products and Resource Guide

The Molecular Probes Flow Cytometry Products and Resource Guide provides an overview of the products and techniques used in flow cytometry workflows, including:

• Sample preparation—from cell preservation to cell isolation
• Instrument setup and calibration—from alignment to absolute cell counting
• Antigen detection—from primary antibodies to custom services
• Cell analysis—from cell health and viability to phagocytosis

Request your copy—in print or digital format—of the Molecular Probes Flow Cytometry Products and Resource Guide

Molecular Probes cell imaging app: Protocols at your fingertips

The Molecular Probes Cell Imaging Reagent Guide and Protocols mobile app is designed to help you find fluorescent reagents, kits, and protocols for cell biology–related fluorescence microscopy applications. Also included are product guides for instrument calibration and setup, protein labeling, and secondary detection. Key features of the app include:

• Straightforward experimental design, with excitation and emission data for every reagent
• Quick and easy protocols, with a built-in protocol timer that runs even if you leave the app
• Examples of data output for every product

Download the Molecular Probes Cell Imaging Reagent Guide and Protocols mobile app today:

• At the App Store™ for iPhone® and iPad® devices

24 Hours of Stem Cells: Global virtual conference

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Virtual demonstration of the EVOS FL Auto Imaging System

Explore the innovative features of the EVOS FL Auto Imaging System and Onstage Incubator with this interactive virtual demonstration. Spin the unit around and interact with the key features of the system. Experience the simple, intuitive software that allows researchers to perform advanced imaging applications regardless of their skill level. Watch videos of time-lapse images collected by the EVOS FL Auto Imaging System. Choose options from the main menu to learn more about how the EVOS FL Auto Imaging System is optimally designed for:

• Live-cell imaging
• Automated cell counting
• Area scanning
• Image tiling/stitching
• Time-lapse imaging

See for yourself how the EVOS FL Auto Imaging System reduces the complexities of microscopy, allowing you to focus on generating great imaging data. Try our interactive virtual demonstration of the EVOS FL Auto Imaging System

Molecular Probes School of Fluorescence

Learn the fundamentals of fluorescence imaging from Molecular Probes scientists. We’ve spent hundreds of hours in the lab and want to share our best tips, tricks, and protocols for capturing beautiful images, including:

• Fundamentals of fluorescence microscopy
• Sample and fluorescent label considerations
• Analysis of your labeled samples
• Live- and fixed-cell staining protocols

It’s our aim to include everything that we wish we had known when we started working with fluorescent imaging reagents, and we asked our Technical Support team to review each section to make sure we haven’t overlooked anything. Even though we can’t be right there in the lab with you when you do your experiments, we hope you’ll benefit from the information we’ve collected.

• Molecular Probes School of Fluorescence