AUROX
UNITY

Aurox Unity is a compact, all-in-one benchtop Laser-Free confocal microscope engineered for live-cell imaging with high speed, high resolution, and ease of use. It features laser-free, multispectral LED illumination to minimize photo-toxicity and photobleaching, while delivering confocal and widefield imaging with a single tap. Unity supports time-lapse, Z-stacks, tile scans, multi-channel imaging, and multi-position experiments.

Controlled via an integrated iPad app, it offers plug-and-play setup, minimal maintenance, and a self-contained design with built-in data storage. The system accommodates plates, dishes, or slides, and can be integrated into clean lab environments thanks to its compact and robust construction.

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Efficient and Affordable

Unity incorporates Aurox’s light efficient structured illumination technology and a spinning disc to achieve high resolution, confocal images at high-speed.

The enhanced light budget generated by a structured illumination disk means the light source can be LED. This in turn means fast acquisition low phototoxicity and keep live cell happier longer. Its even more cost effective.

Compact Form

With a small footprint to fit the bench, it’s great for labs with limited space, for use in a laminar flow hood, and ideal to use in a CAT-3 laboratories.

No need to have a dark room as it is fully enclosed.

Multimodal Imaging

Flexible imaging modes for brightfield and confocal, easily switchable from one to another. With software support for XYZ, Time, Multi Channel and Tiling, all imaging parameters can be configured.

Choose the sample format you want to work with from single dish to multi-dish, slides or multiwell plates from 6 to 384 well.

Live Cell Ready

Low phototoxicity for live cell imaging with stage heating as standard and connection for CO2/O2 and humidity available, full environmental control will keep your cells alive for longer.

High-Speed

Patented structured illumination and spinning disk technology allows Unity to acquire high resolution confocal images at up to 40 frames per second, ideal for live cell studies, multiple sample imaging and large z series tile scans.

Ideal for fast cellular processes needing a high frame rate and long term developmental studies needing a controlled environment.

Applications

  • Immunology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Oncology
  • Embryology
  • Plant Biology
  • Cell Biology
  • Molecular genetics
  • Drug Discovery

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IMAGING EXPERIMENTS
Flexible and Adaptable
With its go anywhere design and integrated vibration dampening, Unity is ideal for use in the light and airy open laboratory.
TIME-LAPSE
Long Time-Lapse Experiments
Time-lapse is easy with Unity.
Simply define your region of interest. Then it’s:

✓ One tap and a drag sets the timelapse duration, and
✓ Tap and drag again to set the time-lapse interval.
Z-STACK
Define the Z-Stack Range
Touch and drag the focus Z wheel up and down and tap to mark the top and bottom of the Z-stack.

Unity does the rest.
FAST MULTI-CHANNEL
1, 2 ,3 & 4 Color Channels Option
A single tap switches on or off the individual channels.

Set exposure times and brightness by dragging up or down on the respective colour chevrons.

Handy histograms to help you achieve optimal settings
WIDEFIELD CONFOCAL
Confocal or Widefield at a Tap
One tap and it’s all about confocal. Tap again and it’s widefield.

Adjusting the sectioning is just a tap!
MULTI-POSITION
Multiple Regions of Interest
Add one or more regions of interest (ROI) to an experiment.

Choose a ROI, adjust the settings and swipe right to set, Repeat, as many times as you like.

At anytime, swipe down with two fingers to review and edit the set ROIs.
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LIVE-CELL
Unity for live-cell imaging
✓ Compact and self contained.
✓ Easy to maintain / clean.
✓ Easy to use with minimal interaction.
✓ Plug and play.
✓ Easy to move and locate.
The CAT-3 ready Unity
The compact and fully integrated design of Unity makes it the ideal confocal microcope for use in the CAT-3 laboratory.

Unity is extremely easy to use with minimal interaction and it’s construction allows for the use of typical decontamination procedures.
TILESCAN
Drag-Out a Tilescan Area
Tap and hold, then drag out a wire frame over the desired tilescan area.

Unity does the rest.
PLATES, DISHES AND SLIDES
Plates, Dishes and Slides with Unity Sample Holders
Unity can be supplied with three interchangeable sample holders allowing samples to be imaged, whether they are mounted in multi-well plates, petri-dishes or slides.

Each of the Unity sample holders has a retention system to hold the sample securely and a magnetic locating system which connects to Unity’s XY stage in the holder. This system ensures the sample holder position is securely held throughout imaging experiments.
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ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
Unity's live cell capability
Unity’s red cased incubator sample stage provides heating and CO2 gas connections for sample environment control, allowing your live-cell samples to be maintained at 25-370C and under CO2 for the duration of your longer term imaging experiments (external humidifier and CO2 mixer required).
SOFTWARE CONTROL
Tap, Drag and Swipe with Unity’s iOS Software
Unity iOS provides all the functionality required for the set-up, control and review of confocal and widefield imaging experiments in a quick and easy to use Ipad application. Imaging is easy with Unity.

Simply:

✓ Tap
✓ Drag
✓ Swipe
SOFTWARE CONTROL
Unity's iPad Controller
Unity comes complete with an Apple iPad tablet computer for full fingertip control.

The iPad communicates directly with Unity over a dedicated and secure private wireless connection, issuing commands and visualizing data saved on Unity’s built in image server.

To increase the speed of the data stream response, images are optimized for faster feedback and display on the iPad. The full high resolution collected images are permanently stored on Unity’s internal server.

The iPad works as a remote control system with all commands controlled by Unity’s software and firmware.
LIGHTING
Unity's Choice of Light
Our patented confocal technology is significantly more light efficient, meaning Lasers are not needed.

Instead, Unity uses our in-house powerful multispectral LED source making Unity:

✓ Free from laser safety restrictions
✓ Low photo-toxicity
✓ Low photo-bleaching
✓ Low maintenance
✓ Low cost of ownership
CAMERAS
Unity's 2x4 Megapixel Scientific CMOS Camera
At the heart of Unity is a custom designed large format and high performance sCMOS digital camera. Developed in collaboration with Ximea, the camera has been designed specifically for use in Unity and for confocal imaging experiments.

Unity’s camera has a novel design, consisting of two 2k x 2k scientific grade CMOS chips mounted side by side with shared electronics such that the two chips are pixel to pixel registered allowing Aurox’s patented approach to laser-free confocal imaging.

Unity uses the camera to record both confocal and widefield images in both the low magnification sample overview mode (large field of view of 4mm x 4mm) and also in the high magnification 4-100x mode for the imaging of high resolution Z-stacks.
SYSTEM HARDWARE
Plug and Play
Designed for the laboratory benchtop, Unity is extremely compact and self-contained, weighing less than 25 Kg. Gone are the tangle of cables found on other confocal systems. Unity requires a single power cable and has rear ports for the connection of a CO2 supply. Unity can be networked wirelessly, but it also has a wired network connection and multiple USB-3/USB-c ports if required.
SYSTEM HARDWARE
Unity's CPU and Image Server
Unity does more than just collect high quality confocal image data. Unity also stores your data on a 4TB SSD integrated drive and makes your data accessible, wherever you are, over a secure network.
OPTICAL PATH
Unity's Patented Optical Path
The patented optical path is central to the design of Unity and its enabling technology. It allows sample imaging from both above and below the sample, providing confocal and widefield imaging whilst maintaining an extremely compact size.

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