Lab-a-chip technologies for automating and miniaturizing bulk laboratory processes like separations, mixing, conversion chemistries and detection reactions are carried out in arrays of wells and microchannels. They can mimic bulk laboratory practices as well as provide unique capabilities such as gene expression analyses which can only be done on the micro and nano scale. These chips can be even more demanding than sequencing and PCR in terms of illumination intensity.

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A technology called quantitative-PCR is often used to measure the amount and identity of DNA samples. Most tools for quantitative-PCR would benefit from switchable, stable, powerful multicolor illumination without the need for mechanical wheels and shutters to modulated the light.

According to Steven Jaffe, Ph.D., Lumencor CEO and founder, “The life science industry is undergoing fundamental change. Researchers are placing greater demand on their analytical equipment for increasingly sensitive and specific analyses. They are designing smaller, more mobile analytical instruments with flexible, high performance light sources. Lumencor’s smart light engines meet this need.”

These are all problems Lumencor’s smart light engines are designed to resolve. In addition, a host of new strategies for identifying, characterizing and understanding biomarkers of disease, drug targets and therapeutic response will continue to place increasing demands on the performance and cost of lighting for biotech. Lumencor looks to mature it’s “next generation” light technology to support the evolution of these new tools.

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Finally, optical microscopes for fluorescence detection in tissues, cells or intact specimens remain the workhorse of any biology laboratory. They require uniform, stable light and their intensity requirements are essentially defined by the objective and the illumination area under interrogation. Compromises are often made in terms of employing costly filtering components, shutters, and/or multiple lasers for sufficient brightness.

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Beaverton, Oregon—June 25, 2008—Lumencor™, a biotechnology company developing lighting solutions for the life sciences, announced today its smart light engines for bioanalysis. This new generation of lighting for biotech is currently available for Beta testing at select labs in the US and Europe. Lumencor’s light engines are designed to replace traditional light sources. They meet the needs of manufacturers developing bioanalytical instruments and scientists involved in advanced research and diagnostic testing.

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Whole cells are often studied and characterized via flow cytometry. Analyses are carried out in a flow stream used to separate individual cells. Providing sufficient light into such small volumes is a significant technical challenge.

Lumencor is a Beaverton, Oregon-based device manufacturer developing novel light engines for the life sciences industry. Lumencor light engines provide high quality solutions for lighting subsystems employed by life science instrument manufacturers, bioanalytical researchers and scientists with a high power, low cost, spectrally pure and stable light source. The units are designed to simply replace today’s light subsystems as well as for tomorrow’s small, portable analyzers. For more information about Lumencor, including a technology white paper, go to the website at:

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