Western Blot Imaging Systems
Azure BiosystemsHigh-quality and affordable imaging systems, qPCR systems, and reagents.
Azure Biosystems
Revolutionizing the way you Western blot! Azure Imagers are high performance Western blot imaging systems capable of NIR fluorescence, visible fluorescence, and chemiluminescence.
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Using lasers for NIR fluorescent imaging sets the Azure Imagers apart from competitors. Our Imagers are the only ones on the market to use lasers. Narrow, specific laser excitation leads to higher signal, with less background and increases the overall sensitivity of your Western blots.
Azure Imagers provide the sensitivity, adaptability, and performance that are needed by a wide variety of experimental processes—allowing you to use the same imager to keep up with research changes and introduce new techniques as your scope continues to develop. Find out which Azure Imager is best for your research by reviewing the comparison table below.
From upstream conjugation to downstream analysis, we help provide the most inclusive workflow for your research. The full HD 13.3" touchscreen user interface allows for total customization over imaging protocols, while ensuring repeatability from sample to sample.
Every piece of technology from Azure Biosystems is designed with your future publications in mind. Our reagents, imaging systems, and software work together seamlessly to help you accurately follow Western blot best practices and generate journal-ready images.
Solve the issue of housekeeping proteins, which lack linearity and normalization accuracy at high protein loads. Several Azure Imaging Systems can be upgraded with the Azure Q Module, an optional green fluorescence channel intended for detecting Total Protein Stains, such as TotalStainQ.
This can be used for efficient total protein normalization (TPN) of quantitative Western blots and helps achieve the most accurate quantification.
Just as sensitive as film, but easier and quantitative, our Azure Imaging Systems will revolutionize your chemiluminescent workflows and eliminate your need for a darkroom.
All of our models provide high-resolution imaging that’s perfect for publications. Change the sample to optics distance using adjustable height shelf for enhanced detection. Zoom into the area of interest with ROI imaging to reduce background.
Complete flexibility to control imaging, exposure time, and detection of color markers. The acquisition modes include preview, automatic and manual image capture, multiple and cumulative exposures.
With high resolution, high sensitivity, low background fluorescence imaging and up to 4 channel fluorescent detection from RGB to NIR spectrum, the Azure Imaging System enables quantitative Western Blotting and a whole lot more.
Full-color multiplex RGB LEDs and filters broaden your imaging capabilities to visible fluorescence wavelengths, increasing flexibility and expanding multiplexing options while keeping system-size compact and value high.
Choose the Azure 400 for visible fluorescence, the Azure 500 for NIR fluorescence, or the Azure 600 for both visible and NIR fluorescence.
Ready to expand your research past gels and membranes? What truly sets Azure Imaging Systems apart is their ability to image more than just blots with cameras ranging from 5.4MP to 9.1MP.
From tissue sections and media plates to in vivo fluorescence of three-dimensional samples, the Azure Imaging Systems have unmatched depth-of-field that easily enables unparalleled imaging flexibility. Azure Imagers enable you to image three-dimensional samples, such as mice and zebrafish.
Shown from left to right: Fluorescent protein in native gel, Mouse with RFP-expressing subcutaneous tumor, mouse brain tissue slides, three-color fluorescent Western blot, mice imaged RGB automatic mode, mouse brain slides, GFP/m-Cherry dish, GFP-expressing Arabidopsis thaliana
Choose the configuration that supports today’s studies, while maintaining the option to upgrade later on
Upgrades available for chemiluminescence, NIR fluorescence and RGB fluorescence.
| Parameter | Azure 600 | Azure 500 | Azure 400 | Azure 300 | Azure 280 | Azure 200 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detection | 9.1 MP camera | 6.1 MP camera | 5.4 MP camera | |||
| Pixel resolution | 16-bit, 65,536, Grayscale | |||||
| Peltier Cooling | -50°C regulated cooling | N/A | ||||
| 7 Position Filter Wheel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trans UV302 and 365nm | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Color Imaging | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trans-white imaging | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Chemiluminescence | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Laser-based NIR Imaging | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Visible/RGB Fluorescent Imaging | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Epi Blue Light Imaging | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Total protein normalization channel | ✓ | Optional | ✓ | Optional | ||
| UV Safety Override Switch | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Field of View | 20.5 x 16.5 cm | 20.4 x 16.6 cm | 20 x 15 cm | |||
| Unit dimensions (W x H x D) | 42 x 56 x 33 cm / 16.5” x 22” x 13” | |||||
| Weight | 20 kg / 44 lbs | 17.7 kg / 39 lbs | ||||
| Power requirements | 100-240 VAC, 4A; Single Phase; Consumption: 0.4 kW (400 Watts) | |||||
| Connection | Unique touchscreen user interface for easy access to preset automatic applications | |||||
| Certifications | CE Compliance Certified | |||||
Azure Imaging Systems support multiple applications and are able to record data from fluorescent and chemiluminescent Western blots, bacterial plates, protein gels, nucleic acid gels, and more.
Azure Imagers have been published in over 2,000 publications worldwide. Our high-resolution CCD cameras are the reason behind reproducible data and publication-ready images.
