Thermo Scientific CryoStar NX70
Equipment overview
The Thermo Scientific CryoStar NX70 is an advanced, ergonomic motorized cryostat engineered to cut fresh-frozen tissue sections down to 0.5 µm with high precision and stability. Its form-fitting design and motorized features are optimized to reduce user fatigue while maintaining consistent, high-quality sectioning for delicate research applications.
Major applications
This advanced sectioning and cooling system is ideally suited for a wide variety of downstream analyses. Key applications include: frozen sectioning of specific tissue regions, routine diagnostic pathology, cancer research, immunohistochemistry, neurobiology, plant biology, developmental biology, and genomics and proteomics sample preparation.
Cutting Performance
- Section Thickness Range
- 0.5–500 µm
- Cutting Speed
- 0–256 mm/s
- Vertical Cutting Stroke
- 64 mm
Specimen Movement
- Horizontal Specimen Movement
- 48 mm
- Specimen Retraction
- 20 µm
- Motorized Coarse Advance
- Up to 3 mm/s
Temperature & Freezing
- Specimen Head Temperature
- −50°C to +10°C
- Blade Holder Temperature
- −35°C to −5°C
- Peltier Fast Freezing Device
- Rapid cooling down to −60°C