Azure’s Imaging Systems
Flexible, upgradable, and affordable performance
Azure Biosystems’s imagers cover the full spectrum of capabilities for documentation and quantitative analysis of gels, blots, slides, tissue samples, small animal models, plants, and more. Choose one of our Imagers for general lab imaging needs or the Sapphire Biomolecular Imager for maximum flexibility and performance. Regardless of which model you choose, your lab will benefit from the same commitment to excellence Azure Biosystems brings to instrument design, manufacturing, service, and support.
Meet Our Systems
Workhorse imagers for every lab
Our family of Imagers offers fast, sensitive, high-resolution 9MP CCD-based detection in a small, benchtop-friendly footprint.
Choose the basic 200 for streamlined gel documentation and densitometry (white light, blue light, and UV) and then upgrade later as your studies change.
Upgrade to the 300 to add the ability to detect chemiluminescence at the same sensitivity as film.
The 300 is also upgradable to the 400, which adds visible (rgb) fluorescence detection, or the 500 for near infrared (NIR) fluorescence detection.
All of these models can be upgraded to the 600 which combines all of these detection modes—white light, blue light, UV, chemiluminescence, visible fluorescence, and NIR fluorescence—in a single powerful instrument.
The Sapphire Biomolecular Imager: Powerful performance, maximum flexibility
For labs that need the highest levels of imaging performance—sensitivity (pg to fg), resolution (down to 10 μm), dynamic range (over 6-log), field-of-view (25 cm x 25 cm scannable area)—or want an imager that can keep up with their diverse and dynamic research needs, Azure offers the Sapphire Biomolecular Imager. This instrument combines a unique, patent-pending three detector design with the background-minimizing, focused excitation of a laser scanner. The result is a hybrid laser scanner- CCD imager that delivers best-in-class chemiluminescent detection, visible and NIR fluorescence detection, and phosphorimaging.

AzureSpot Software: Sophisticated analysis, simple and streamlined workflows
With a focus on applications and a deep understanding of how scientists work, AzureSpot Software delivers powerful image analysis that’s quick and easy to implement. From simple image capture to sophisticated quantitative analysis, AzureSpot Software supports the full capabilities of all our imagers and Sapphire Imagers.

cSeries Imaging Systems
Resources
Azure Imaging Systems
Brochure (PDF)
Sapphire Biomolecular
Imager (PDF)

Imager Models
200 | 280 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600
Applications
Imagers
Document and/or quantitatively analyze:
Gels:
- 2D-gels
- Agarose gels
- Densitometry
- DNA gels
- Fluorescent protein native gels
- Gels dyed with SYBR® and other “safe” dyes
- In-gel fluorescence
- Native protein gels
- PAGE gels
- More…
Blots
- Chemiluminescent Northern blots
- Chemiluminescent Sourthern blots
- Chemiluminescent Western blots
- Fluorescent Western blots
- Multiplex fluorescent Western blots
- Quantitative Western blots
- More…
Plates
- Bacterial plates
- Yeast plates
- More…
Tissues and small animal models
- Morphology
- Reporter gene expression
- Viral load
- More…
Sapphire Biomolecular Imager
Document and/or quantitatively analyze:
Gels:
- 2D-DGE
- 2D-gels
- Agarose gels
- Densitometry
- DNA gels
- Electrophoretic mobility assay
- Fluorescent protein native gels
- Gels dyed with SYBR® and other “safe” dyes
- In-gel fluorescence
- In-gel Western
- Native protein gels
- PAGE gels
- More…
Blots
- Chemiluminescent Northern blots
- Chemiluminescent Sourthern blots
- Chemiluminescent Western blots
- Fluorescent Western blots
- Multiplex fluorescent Western blots
- Protein arrays
- Quantitative Western blots
- More…
Plates
- Bacterial plates
- ELISA
- In-cell or on-cell ELISA
- In-cell Westerns
- Multiwell plates
- Yeast plates
- More…
Microarrays
- Chemiluminescent array
- DNA microarray slides
- More…
Tissues and small animal models
- Morphology
- Reporter gene expression
- Tissue section imaging
- Viral load
- More…
Phosphor imaging
- Electrophoretic mobility assay
- More…
Choosing the Best System for Your Lab
Still not sure whether you need an imager or Sapphire? Get in touch and we can set up a call or visit to go through your current and expected studies and walk you through each systems’s capabilities and sample data.
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