Thermo Cryostat NX70
Equipment overview
The Thermo Scientific CryoStar NX70 is an advanced, ergonomic motorized cryostat engineered to cut fresh-frozen tissue sections down to 0.5 µm with high precision and stability.
Major applications
The advanced sectioning and cooling system is ideally suited for frozen sectioning of specific tissue regions, routine diagnostic pathology, cancer research, immunohistochemistry, neurobiology, plant biology, developmental biology, and genomics and proteomics sample preparation.
Specifications
- • Section Thickness Range
- 0.5 to 500 µm
- • Cutting Speed
- 0 to 256 mm/s
- • Vertical Cutting Stroke
- 64 mm
- • Specimen Retraction
- 20 µm
- • Motorized Coarse Advance
- Up to 3 mm/s max
- • Specimen Head Temperature Range
- -50°C to +10°C
- • Blade Holder Temperature Range
- -35°C to -5°C
- • Peltier Fast Freezing Device
- Rapidly cools down to -60°C
- • Storage Positions
- 18 cryobar storage positions including 1 quick-freeze location