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The IRF provides users with a wide variety of technologies and techniques for research – please use the provided resources to help plan your work; IRF staff are experts in their field and will help with project planning and experiment design; please contact irf@sgul.ac.uk at the earliest point in your project planning to discuss your imaging and sample preparation needs.
Microscopy has evolved from the invention of compound microscopes in the 17th century through to the plethora of microscopy techniques available to the researcher today, so many so that a comprehensive list becomes overwhelming. A simplified graphical representation of the more widely used technologies is supplied here as the basis for further reading:
View a complete list of all systems available via the light microscopy suite.
The histology lab facilitates processing of tissue from fixation to sectioning and staining.
Access technical specifications for flow cytometry and FACS systems.
A number of software packages are available for image analysis in the IRF.
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