Fluorescence Illumination
With over 30 years of experience in building light sources for the life sciences we offer a range of solutions for fluorescence, transmitted light and OptoGenetics.
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Cairn Research is a European scientific instruments manufacturer based in Kent, UK.
Fluorescence Detection
With an emphasis on optical performance, stability, usability, and flexibility Cairn are proud to offer a broad range of multichannel emission and detection products.
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Integrated Imaging Systems
Complimentary to our wide range of in-house microscopy and macroscopy products we also have an experienced team of scientists offering turnkey systems and solutions.
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Custom Microscopy Design
We have a dedicated design and R&D team with an onsite engineering machine workshop and offsite contracted engineers available with over 20 years of experience.
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Stimulating Photoreceptors with OptoLED Cairn customer, Professor Roger Hardie from Cambridge University, explains to the BBC news team why it is so hard to swat a fly! The fast switching LED light source used in his research for stimulating the…
Bordeaux Neurocampus We are delighted to support this truly international course by helping to set up a high speed calcium imaging system with laser photolysis. Jez pictured with course instructor, Marco Canepari, and students from Japan, Russia and the…
This particular blog came into existence because James our Marketing Director asked me to write something about our FuraLED illuminator, but I realised there was potentially so much to say on the subject that I couldn’t just do that on…
Congratulations to our friends and colleagues Phillippe Laissue and Paul Maddox for their Whitman Centre Research Awards. We, at Cairn Research, are really pleased to have helped them build their research systems. Pierre Philippe Laissue (University of Essex, UK) Label-free,…