biotool
for cell imaging

The nanotools® biotool is made for excellent life cell imaging

Scanning Probes made from high density carbon are ideally suited for imaging biomolecules like DNA and proteins, as they can be used for AFM imaging in liquids, i.e. the DNA's natural environment, fully active, in buffer solution, never dried.

Dr. Rippe, scientist at the cancer research center Heidelberg, explains: "This, namely imaging the real thing, works now very well with the HDC tips from nanotools."

Further, one can now for instance investigate the impact of drugs on individual bacteria in ultra high resolution. Nanotools tips can be made either hydrophobic or hydrophil and remain so. Therefore the interaction between the tip and the sample can be so weak, that non destructive imaging is possible for a comparatively long time. This opens the door for a wide array of applications, for instance studying dynamic interactions.

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