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LUMIstar Omega - Dedicated high performance microplate luminometer upgradeable to powerful multidetection reader with spectrometer


DLRThe dedicated DLReady® certified microplate luminometer LUMIstar Omega provides highly sensitive reading of flash and glow luminescence assays and versatility through onboard "smart" injectors, a built-in filter wheel, shaking, incubation up to 60°C, as well as a gas vent connection to support all major types of cell based assays. For BRET applications, even Simultaneous Dual Emission detection is possible. Part of the Omega microplate reader series, the LUMIstar Omega also has these outstanding features:

Features:LUMIstar Brochure

  • Onboard "smart" injectors dispense reagents and initiate kinetic events

  • Upgradeable to FLUOstar Omega or POLARstar Omega with UV/Vis spectrometer

  • Template manager for transferring standards, building complex data processing protocols and using default templates

  • Versatile kinetic software features for endpoint, long-term and fast kinetic measurements

  • Real-time kinetic monitoring

  • Built-in filter wheel for color discrimination assays

  • Plate capacity up to 384-well

  • "QuickStart" mode allows users to read plates with just 3 mouse clicks

  • Impressive well-scanning feature allows cell-based assays to be performed with ease

  • Expanded temperature control up to 60°C

  • Stacker and robot compatibility

Optimized for kinetic measurements: Onboard "smart" injectors and versatile kinetic software features:
Kinetic events can be conveniently initiated using integrated "smart" injectors, which allow simultaneous reagent injection and detection. The compact and open design of the LUMIstar Omega microplate luminometer enables the user to save expensive reagents due to low dead volume and to check the priming process. Injection speed and timing is fully adjustable within the control software. Up to four different volumes, between 5 and 350 µL can be delivered in 0.5 µL increments to each well. The injectors can deliver agonists, substrates, enzymes - even cells, for advanced microplate assays. When monitoring a fast calcium signal kinetic, data can be collected as quickly as 50 reading points per second. For glow reactions, you can choose plate-mode and to have longer kinetic times or you can choose endpoint glow luminescence runs.

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Color discrimination assays
The LUMIstar Omega luminometer can read at distinct wavelengths (needed for e.g. BRET and ChromaGlo") using up to eight different optical luminescence filters. These filters are built into a filter wheel, which minimizes filter switching time.

Upgradable to multidetection microplate reader with spectrometer
Whenever the need for fluorescence and absorbance based experiments arrive, have the LUMIstar Omega microplate luminometer upgraded to a FLUOstar Omega multidetection microplate reader. If the need for Simultaneous Dual Emission or Fluorescence Polarization arises, have the LUMIstar Omega upgraded to the POLARstar Omega. Both of these Omega multi-detection microplate readers are capable of capturing an absorbance spectrum (220 - 850 nm) at a resolution of 1 nm. Read times faster than 1 second per well are possible.

Applications include:



For a list of BMG LABTECH application notes that can be performed on the LUMIstar Omega microplate luminometer, please click here.

The LUMIstar Omega luminometer is certified by Promega for the Dual Luciferase Reporter (DLR") gene assay.

For more information on the Omega series, click here.

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