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Dear All

Does anyone know of a manufacturer, or other solution of U bottomed plates suitable for microscopy. Essentially we need the U bottom equivalent of the Black walled 'optically bottomed' 96 and 384 well plates used for High Content screening. Alternatively has anyone come up with a smart solution, which isn't colouring in the walls of the wells with a black permanent marker (which will work but isn't really ideal for organoid screening).

The organoids can't be moved to a flat bottomed plate. Probably like others we are looking at reporter gene assays and we are expecting to see differential expression of fluorescently tagged genes both spatially and temporally. Further the organoids are sufficiently large we don't need super high magnification.

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Hello,

I thought to add my two cents to this thread, having previously used all the Abberior and Leica scopes.
Firstly, I believe that Stellaris 8 and STEDYCON are in different classes (evident just by the price tag alone), with Stellaris 8 being a flagship product comparable rather to Abberior Infinity or Facility Line.
In my opinion, STEDYCON is a great machine (it's amazing what they crammed into its PC case-sized box), if you need a more compact setup with a bit more limited features than flagship scopes. It works great as a basic 2D STED microscope and is a competent confocal in its own right (I know of places that use it almost almost solely as confocal). Moreover, it runs on a different software (built from ground up) than Infinity or Facility scopes, which I, and the users I demoed it to, found very easy to use.
Hence, it is a great choice for STED scope if you perhaps do not have the cash for Stellaris, need something more compact or if you already have an existing microscope body that you would want to upgrade to confocal/STED.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Jakub




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> We have an Abberior Facility STED system and are extremely pleased
> with the performance and the excellent support from Abberior. We also
> have an older Leica SP5 which is an excellent general purpose
> confocal, and have had good support from Leica. I think that the
> Abberior Facility line has several advantages over the Leica STED but
> I am not totally familiar with that product. 1) It has the spatial
> light modulators which allow 3D STED without deconvolution or other
> processing. 2) It has all pulsed lasers for excitation and depletion
> with the exception of the 405nm one. This not only expands the
> possibilities for STED experiments but also allows for more FLIM
> options either in STED mode or regular confocal mode. 3) The system
> autoaligns itself in a very easy  user-friendly procedure. Although
> the software is well designed and user friendly, I would not choose
> this system as a general purpose confocal microscope that you could turn students loose on without significant training.
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