IDEA Bio-Medical developed Hermes WiScan - a desktop High Content Screening system designed for researchers, at all levels of expertise in Microscopy, to easily run a wide range of biological applications at the push-of-a-button, using an extremely easy-to-use (tablet-style) touchscreen mechanism and intuitive GUI. The key competitive features of this system are its laser autofocus system, which provides high quality, always focused images, at very high imaging speeds, its ease-of-use, and its very competitive, modular pricing.
This revolutionary High-Definition, Automated Cell-Imaging system will bring down the exorbitant costs of biomedical and pharmaceutical R&D and drastically reduce the time and improve the output of drug discovery processes.

WiScan® technology originated at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science and at IDEA Bio-Medical’s parent company IDEA Machine Development, and was further developed by IDEA Bio-Medical as part of a commercialization agreement with YEDA – the Institute’s technology transfer arm.

About IDEA Bio-Medical Ltd.

IDEA Bio-Medical was established in 2007 as a spin-off from IDEA Machine Development, a 25-year-old Original Design Manufacturer that specializes in precision optics and laser-based technologies in the fields of defense, semiconductors, PCB, Flat Panel Displays, digital printing, and gemology. The company boasts such clients as HP, KLA-Tencor, Elbit, Orbotech, Lazar Kaplan and others. IDEA Bio-Medical is an outcome of a commercialization agreement between its parent company and Yeda – the technology transfer arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

IDEA Bio-Medical has customers in the US (Northeast and Southeast), in the UK, and in Germany.

High Content Screening

The WiScan system is a breakthrough in combining two opposing features of automated microscopy: Image quality (high content) and acquisition speed (high throughput).

The WiScan system incorporates:

Advanced quantitative screening procedures including:- Rapid examination of complex multicolor data; live cell imaging under physiological conditions, and multiparametric analysis of cellular features - with excellent preservation of important biological information - all in high throughput.

WiScan and WiSoft complement each other: - The large data volume generated by the ultra-fast WiScanTM system is rapidly processed by the WiSoftTM analysis software, thereby preventing an unwieldy accumulation of raw data.

The ultimate platform for biological and biomedical research enables modularity and robustness as well as rapid and versatile set-up for a broad range of applications. It has been developed as a multi-user platform, yet it can be readily tailored to perform highly specialized tasks.

Modular hardware and software allows the user to start with the base system for a limited budget and upgrading and customizing the system to the advanced system.

A standalone platform that requires only a mains connection for operation. The system can be relocated within minutes, as required. The system can operate in ambient light.

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