PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the launch of the Lamina multilabel slide scanner at the USCAP 2014 Annual Meeting. The Lamina scanner is a high throughput imaging system designed to help research pathologists to more easily study protein expression and the relationships between disease markers in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue sections. This allows research pathologists to gain a deeper understanding of diseases for the development of more effective therapies and treatments.
Configured to meet the needs of a larger research facility, the Lamina scanner includes high-speed brightfield and fluorescence imaging modalities along with PerkinElmer's proprietary Autofluorescence Reduction Technology (ART™). It is designed to reduce interference from autofluorescence -- an unwanted by-product of tissue fixation -- and fluorophore cross-talk, in which the signal from one fluorophore bleeds into multiple channels. Both of these effects obscure real signals, which ...
