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Quantitative Biological Imaging at the Single Molecule Level

	July 5, 2018
	Life Science Microscopy
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Quantitative Biological Imaging at the Single Molecule Level
While images can be visually impressive and provide qualitative, descriptive information, biological research is increasingly focusing on quantitative measurements.

Such measurements allow scientists to test hypotheses and conduct data driven experiments. This is particularly true for super-resolution localization microscopy, which generates sets of precise molecular location data over a period of time. The resulting data is used to create images, and also allows for direct quantitative analysis of molecular positions in a sample, providing a fundamentally different type of analysis than is possible with image-based techniques like STED and SIM.

A free version of Bruker’s Vutara SRX software is available for download, offering a number of measurement analyses to help researchers quickly and easily analyze the molecular localization data collected. The downloadable file is bundled with a test encrypted data set that allows you to see how SRX can quickly create publication-quality videos, images, and measurements.

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