Fluorescence Adapter enlarges Stereo Mi­croscope Experiment Range

Nightsea’s Stereomicroscope Fluores­cence Adapter adds a powerful fluo­rescence capability to existing routine stereomicroscopes.

Any student capa­ble of looking through a microscope can conduct a wide range of fluo­rescence experiments. For exam­ple, students at Colgate Univer­sity’s Developmental Biology Lab were interested in how various drugs affected the growth of the nervous system and vasculature in zebrafish embryos. By tag­ging those systems in transgenic zebrafish with Green Fluores­cent Protein (GFP) and observing them under a routine stereo mi­croscope fitted with the SFA, they could observe changes in those specific structures as the fish developed.