Rising from the ashes

When Glasgow University's century-old Bower Building was devastated by fire in October 2001, destroying one of the UK's earliest biological laboratories, the Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences looked to Carl Zeiss UK to replace more than 120 microscopes lost in the blaze.

In a deal valued at some £600,000, the Institute purchased 100 Axiostar Plus and Stemi DV4 microscopes, some of which are equipped with fluorescence modules. Thirteen other upright, stereo and inverted microscopes were also equipped for fluorescence imaging. The purchase also included an LSM 510 META laser-scanning confocal microscope following a recent one-off purchase of a Zeiss LSM 510 confocal system.