Carl Zeiss has launched the Palm Microtweezer Force Measurement module, which enables manipulation of microscopic particles and quantitative measurement of forces.
The microscopic manipulation of biological specimens, individual cells and cell components is becoming increasingly common in life-science laboratories.
Carl Zeiss said the launch of the Palm Microtweezer Force Measurement module, which eliminates the need for additional hardware and time-consuming adjustment and calibration, means that the technique can be adopted by many more users.
The Force Measurement module controls the manipulation of microscopic particles with the Palm optical tweezers and enables the quantitative measurement of forces relevant to many life-science disciplines, visualising the data in real time.
The module offers users a flexible and user-friendly interface to the software's functionality, which will enable a large degree of freedom in experimental design and test configuration.
The module also enables the use of the Palm Microtweezer system for pure specimen manipulation as well as for position detection and quantitative force measurement.
This means that direct comparisons may be made between experimental results and data from the literature.
Calibration routines for the characterisation of the optical tweezers are performed automatically and archived together with all experimental data and images.
The Force Measurement module is supplied together with an FM Starterkit containing the Fluidcell component, which permits fast and easy sample preparation.
The Palm Microtweezers and Force Measurement module can be combined with various solutions from Carl Zeiss, including the Palm Microbeam and Colibri light source.
