Particle Characterisation Instrument Boasts Improved Fluorescence Capability

The NS300 utilises the latest version of NanoSight’s particle characterisation technology, nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA). This elegant new instrument offers the exceptional benefits scientists have come to expect from NanoSight in a compact format but with enhanced fluorescence capability.

The NS300 can visualise and measure particles in suspension in the size range of 10–1000 µm (material dependent) and addresses the needs of a wide variety of applications, including protein aggregation, exosome and microvesicle research and drug delivery systems. It contributes to characterisation under the new EU Definition of Nanomaterials and is particularly suited to the analysis of particles labelled with fluorescent quantum dots.

The NS300 instrument provides simultaneous analysis through several filters to give multi-wavelength detection of different fluorophores excited by a single laser. 

Dr. Patrick Hole, NanoSight’s head of product development, said of the new instrument: “The NS300 is the natural progression from the NS500 and LM10. It takes the most popular features of these instruments and combines them into an easy to use, compact format. We then added in the high capacity motorised fluorescence disc. This disc, capable of being programmed from within the software to present up to six different fluorescent filters, will facilitate a more detailed assessment of fluorophores. It will give users the possibility to analyse each fluorescence population in terms of size and concentration; this ability to identify co-localised fluorophores will greatly enhance specificity and the ability to Phenotype."

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