Syngene - New Image Analyser For High Performance Chemiluminescent and Fluorescent Imaging

Date: 01.05.03, Cambridge, UK: Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is delighted to announce the availability of the ChemiGenius Classic, its affordable multi-purpose image analyser. The new system saves time by generating quicker, more accurate results with chemiluminescent and fluorescent imaging applications.
The ChemiGenius Classic, which has been designed to make it both safe and simple to operate has a new software-controlled, true 16 bit CCD cooled camera in its own stylish light-tight darkroom with built-in UV and white light illumination. The benefit of using a 16 bit camera is that users can save time by capturing over 65 thousand grey levels in real time, ensuring they can rapidly acquire images of virtually undetectable chemiluminescent or fluorescent bands. 
This multi-use system comes complete with Syngene’s intuitive, one-click GeneTools analysis software, for a wide variety of chemiluminescent and fluorescent applications. These include 1-D lane analysis, 2-D spot densitometry, Rf/molecular weight calculations, band matching and multi-layer gel analysis. For those scientists working with a number of different fluorescent dyes, the ChemiGenius Classic can be made even more versatile by adding a computer-controlled, 4-position filter wheel. ChemiGenius Classic is manufactured at Syngene’s facilities, and the Company provides a three-year warranty on all hardware, a lifetime supply of free software upgrades, as well as their own expert service cover. Paul Ellwood, Syngene’s Sales and Marketing Director commented: “By popular demand, we have added the ChemiGenius Classic, a true 16 bit image analyser to our highly successful Genius range. With its low introductory price and extensive chemiluminescent options, the ChemiGenius Classic is a cost effective system for discerning scientists that need to capture and analyse images of just about any gel or blot, and will become an industry standard which others will try to follow.” -Ends- 

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Jayne Arthur, Syngene, Beacon House, Nuffield Road, Cambridge, CB4 1TF, UK. 
Tel: +44(0) 1223-727123 Fax +44 (0) 1223-727101 
Email: jayne.arthur@syngene.com  Web site: www.syngene.com  
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Syngene is a world-leading supplier of integrated imaging solutions for analysis and documentation of gel-based information. Syngene’s systems are used by more than 10,000 research organisations and over 50,000 individual scientists world-wide and include many of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies and major research institutes. Syngene, founded in 1997, is a division of the Synoptics Group based in Cambridge, UK. The Group’s other divisions, Syncroscopy and Synbiosis, specialise in digital imaging solutions for microscopy and microbial applications respectively. Synoptics currently employs 55 people in its UK and subsidiary operation in Frederick, USA. The Group has profitable revenue of almost $10 million and continues to grow rapidly.