BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — With Crisp Resolution To 100 Nanometers, The DeltaVision OMX Imaging System Is

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — With crisp resolution to 100 nanometers, the DeltaVision OMX imaging system is considered one of the world’s finest microscope systems. Upon its arrival to Indiana University Bloomington’s Light Microscopy Imaging Center in 2010, researchers quickly renamed it the “OMG” microscope for the amazing images it produced and for its ability to do super-speed imaging of multiple-labeled proteins in cells.

A metaphase epithelial cell stained for microtubules (red), kinetochores (green) and DNA (blue), was the winning image, submitted by IU, in the 2012 GE Healthcare Life Sciences Cell Imaging Competition. The DNA here is fixed in the process of being moved along the microtubules that form the structure of the spindle.