Scientific Experiment

For many scientific researches, mostly in medical, chemical, biology, organic and biochemistry, the transillumination is used for experiment. Transillumination is the process of imaging out a sample by illuminating, also known as light transmission goes through the samples and create sample image. Transilluminators are the tools that used for this process. Among well-known and widely used processes, the Blue Light transilluminators and UV variant are notable but the first one is mostly preferred because of few reasons. First, UV oriented tool is not safe as it produces and spreads UV ray that may cause harm to the sample, DNA samples are more vulnerable. Second, it is harmful for the human body, as it is reported that, UV ray cause skin diseases to human body and excessive radiation may lead to skin cancer. These reasons give Blue Light variant preferences over the UV device. These blue light tools don't cause any harm to human body, don't burn the body and irritate eyes. And, also keep the damage at lowest to the samples. But, scientific researchers are too much sensitive and also concerns many other security facts.

Moreover, there are wide varieties of vendors who market blue light transilluminators. So, there are few certain facts should be considered when choosing a transilluminator. Make sure that your device has been featured following the standard for safety of European community. Be sure about your required products dimension and get informed about your chosen one. The dimension of the viewing surface is also important as you will experiment basically on this. Know about detail product specification, for instance get informed about LED life span, as expected life span is 50,000 hours. Most of the experiments are done with gel; say for example, for DNA synthesis, gel is necessary. For, the synthesis the excitement of the gel is also necessary. Make sure that your device handles the excitement of gel properly. An adapter is essential for the effective gel documentation system, to get better result, make sure that your device got electric power adapter. Be sure about the versatility of your device, the more dyes it can illuminate, it is considered better transilluminator. Your device should at least cover Ethidium Bromide, SYPRO Ruby, GetGreen, SYBRSafe, GelRed, EtBr since they are standard and widely used. For better result, the S/N ratio should be at least. The standard wavelength is 470 nm; make sure your device features the same.