Carl Zeiss has won the 2008 Thuringian Innovation Award for its LSM 710 Laser Scanning Microscope.
Aubrey Lambert of Carl Zeiss UK said: 'Research conducted with multi-fluorescent-labelled living cells is of fundamental importance in the quest for a better understanding of the disease process.
'With its unsurpassed sensitivity, precise optics and a host of other technological innovations focused on live cell imaging, the LSM 710 is a worthy recipient.' The LSM 710 provides high-contrast detailed images, even of complex specimens such as thick living-tissue samples.
Its new illumination and detection design provides absolute freedom in the selection and simultaneous imaging of up to ten fluorescence signals.
The definite focus module maintains a constant focal plane to ensure images are always in focus.
This is the fourth time in eleven years Carl Zeiss has won the Innovation Award.
