New Carl Zeiss software speeds vaccine research

The KS ELISpot compact, based around the Zeiss Stemi 2000 C stereomicroscopes, will read and evaluate the results of a 96-well microplate in less than four minutes and is ideally suited to the routine laboratory. For the research laboratory, the Axio Imager-based KS ELISpot will distinguish spots as small as two microns and, combined with the AxioCam camera and suitable filters, enables fluorescence ELISpot evaluation.

Originally developed to enumerate B cells secreting antigen-specific antibodies, ELISpot has been adapted for various tasks, especially the identification and enumeration of cytokine-producing cells at the single-cell level, where it allows visualisation of the secretory product of individual activated or responding cells.

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