Bring fluorescence microscopy to your classrooms with the new budget-friendly BEAM module!
The BEAM™ fluorescence module transforms your classroom stereo microscopes into fluorescence microscopes, allowing your students to visualize and explore fluorescent objects and organisms such as Drosophila, C. elegans, zebrafish, Arabidopsis, and more.
Give your classroom a glow up!
Fluorescence microscopes have historically been extraordinarily expensive and far beyond the reach of high school and college teachers with limited budgets. As a result, students see grainy images or videos of fluorescent organisms copied in textbooks or on webpages, which is just not the same as observing them with their own eyes in real life and in real time. The BEAM™ module is purposefully designed to close this gap.
Our budget-friendly and compact LED-based system takes the standard stereo microscopes already used in many classrooms and turns them into fluorescence microscopes.
The BEAM™ module is classroom ready. Some features include:
- Universal fit: BEAM™ is compatible with most stereo microscopes. Just simply attach the filters and point the light in the right direction!
- Efficient and compact: BEAM™ is cost-effective, portable, durable, and intuitive to use, with small benchtop and storage footprints. It’s also USB-C powered!
- Prioritized Safety: Safe to use by students, BEAM™ does not use mercury or xenon to generate light and features protective shields that reduce exposure to reflected blue light.
Get stunning fluorescent microscopy with BEAM™ in three simple steps!
Bring BEAM™ to your classroom and watch your students harness the power of fluorescence microscopy to gain foundational understanding of topics ranging from developmental biology to anatomy, physiology, and gene expression!
See it to believe it: Hands-on fluorescence in the classroom
Science is deeply visual. There is nothing quite like observing an organism or seeing real experimental results to engage students and reinforce learned concepts and theories.
Traditional stereo microscopes are powerful teaching tools, allowing students to see everything from plant structures to insect wings. The BEAM™ module adds to this toolkit by further enabling students to visualize fluorescent objects and organisms, including those that naturally fluoresce (like minerals and bird feathers) and model organisms specifically engineered to express Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP).
The discovery of GFP revolutionized science, allowing researchers to determine when and where certain genes are expressed in different organisms and how proteins move around the body. With BEAM™, students can recreate these experiments, most notably using models that are already used in many classrooms, such as C. elegans (tiny soil nematodes), Drosophila (tiny fruit flies), and Zebrafish (especially larvae). Many strains of these animals have been specifically engineered to express GFP in a wide range of tissues. Visualize living individuals with fluorescent neurons, muscles, or intestinal cells, and provide your students with unparalleled insights into organismal physiology and gene expression.
The future of STEM Education
The BEAM™ fluorescence module opens up a whole new way to see biology. Bring fluorescence into your classroom and give students a fresh lens for exploring questions we’ve been asking for generations.
