The Department of Physics at the Technical University of Munich is using a Nanion Port-a-Patch for biophysical research.
Nanion's Port-a-Patch is a tiny automated patch clamp system that allows whole-cell recording and ultralow noise recording of single ion channel events in artificial and cellular bilayers.
Nanion's Vesicle Prep Pro produces giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs), into which the ion channels of interest are reconstituted.
The GUVs form high-resistance solvent-free bilayers.
This simplifies bilayer formation and protein introduction, increasing the efficiency of the research and increasing data quality compared with other recording techniques such as the use of black lipid membranes.
Professor Simmel, chair of Bioelectronics at the TUM Physics Department, said: 'The Port-a-Patch allows students and researchers with no prior experience in electrophysiology to rapidly generate research grade data.'
