Azure Biosystems: Instruments for Image Capture and Analysis

Why Choose Azure Biosystems Instruments?

Comprehensive Imaging Systems Portfolio: Offering the Azure 200 gel imaging workstation for visible protein gel imaging and gel documentation, providing an accessible entry point for laboratories requiring high-quality imaging without a darkroom.​

Delivering the Azure 280, a personal chemiluminescent imager that delivers high-quality chemiluminescent detection while maintaining a compact footprint suitable for bench-limited environments.​

Providing the Azure 300 for quantitative chemiluminescent and visible protein gel imaging through a unique combination of sensitive digital chemiluminescent detection and trans-UV illumination capabilities.​

Supporting the Azure 400 for visible fluorescent detection across RGB wavelengths, enabling multiplex analysis and in-cell western assays with full-color imaging.​

Featuring the Azure 500 as the best solution for sensitive near-infrared and ECL western blots, optimized for high-sensitivity NIR fluorescence applications.​

Offering the Azure 600 as the ultimate western blot imaging system, combining chemiluminescent detection, near-infrared fluorescence, visible fluorescence, and trans-UV capabilities in a single platform.​

Advanced Biomolecular Imaging Solutions

Introducing the Sapphire Biomolecular Imager for high-resolution gel imaging, fluorescence scanning, and in-gel applications requiring exceptional depth-of-field.​

Providing the Sapphire FL Biomolecular Imager as the ultimate biomolecular imager for flexibility, featuring customizable and user-changeable optical modules, 5–1000 μm resolution scans, Z-plane range from -1.0 to +6 mm, and chemiluminescence detection through dedicated modules.​

Delivering the Ao Absorbance Microplate Reader for enzyme kinetics studies, drug discovery screening, protein quantification, and nucleic acid analysis with single and dual wavelength detection modes and kinetic measurement capabilities.​

Combining performance and affordability through modular, upgradeable platforms that allow laboratories to configure systems based on current needs and budget while maintaining field-upgrade pathways for expanded detection modes.​

Utilizing direct, mirror-free detection architecture that places CCD sensors close to samples to maximize light collection efficiency and sensitivity compared to mirror-based systems.​

Implementing laser light sources for NIR illumination, delivering inherently narrower excitation bands and ultra-low background signal for faster, more sensitive near-infrared fluorescence detection.​

Achieving broad linear dynamic range (4.8 OD) for accurate detection of both strong and weak signals, ensuring quantitative accuracy across protein gels and blots.​

Simplifying image capture and analysis through integrated touchscreen interfaces with auto-focus, auto-illumination, filter control, and auto-image capture features that ensure repeatability and reduce user variability.​

Supporting diverse applications beyond traditional gel documentation, including in-cell western assays, fluorescent protein detection in living organisms, media plate imaging, and subcutaneous tumor visualization.​

Providing unified workflow solutions from reagents and consumables through imaging systems to analysis software, ensuring compatibility and performance optimization across the entire experimental process.​

Enabling laboratories to image DNA and protein gels without a darkroom, streamlining workflows and eliminating dedicated dark spaces.​

Meeting publication standards for all major scientific journals with software options enabling 21 CFR Part 11 compliance for regulated environments.​

Delivering high-resolution imaging with exceptional sensitivity and minimal background noise for consistent, reproducible, publication-quality results.​

Azure Biosystems instruments serve laboratory professionals engaged in drug discovery, enzyme kinetics research, gel documentation, and advanced protein analysis, providing scalable solutions that balance scientific rigor with practical laboratory requirements.

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