Neuroscience Lab Equipment and Tools
Micro Control Instruments Ltd is a leading neuroscience equipment supplier, developer and integrator, focused on advancing neuroscience research by supporting the community with exceptional technology, value and service.
Our Products
Our unique equipment range of neuroscience lab equipment combines our own research and development with technology from other leading developers.
Our wide range of equipment and technology covers applications from imaging, electrophysiology and drug application.
We specialise in a number of areas and equipment types:
Optical Breadboards and Anti-Vibration Tables: Our MCI Air range of anti vibration systems offer top of the range quality at prices that suit the modern research budget.The range of breadboards and tables mean there is a solution for most electrophysiology and microscopy applications and labs.
Micromanipulators: Our CleverArm and EasyArm manipulators offer a solution for most types of applications. The CleverArm is a feature packed motorised micromanipulator and the EasyArm offers a solution for those not needing remote control. Both products offer high specification, stability and quality as well as exceptional value.
Optogenetics Light Sources: Our high quality range of light sources include the Polygon400 patterned illuminator as well as our own CleverExplore Illuminate Workstation and more. We offer fiber-coupled LEDs and high intensity LEDs for light sensitive protein activation. As with all our products we focus on quality and reliability alongside value and service.
Complete Electrophysiology Rig: Our CleverExplore workstations offer labs a complete electrophysiology workstation . We have selected a unique array of technology and created a solution that offers a flexible workstation for a broad range of research and applications. Because of the way we package this technology together we are able to offer these rigs in the same price range as other options on the market that have less capability.
The UK headquarters are based in the Innovation Stables, on a farm in the Southeast of England. This is supported by a satellite office on the incubation campus of Nanjing University in China. Not only does MCI offer the very best in neuroscience equipment and tools but we also pride ourselves on excellent customer service and great value. If you would like to discuss your budget requirements or any specifics about your neuroscience research and equipment needs for your lab then get in touch today.
Contact us today to discuss your equipment requirements.
MCI – all things Neuroscience
Precisely-timed electrode stimulation in the spinal cord activates leg muscles in response to brain signals, and enables patients to walk. Paired with weight-assisted therapy, three paraplegics that suffered spinal cord injuries many years ago are now able to walk with crutches or a walker. What is more, all patients involved in the study recovered
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Neuroscience 2018, the Society for Neuroscience’s (SfN) main meeting is fast approaching. Attended by over 30,000 delegates, with 9 featured lectures, 15 special lectures and over 14,000 abstracts submitted, there is so much science to see and discuss, it is easy to get overwhelmed and lost among the throng. Cedric Faure, application scientist and
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By Adam Tozer PhD The sensation of not being able to ‘go’ when you really need to could soon be a thing of the past as two recent papers describe populations of brain cells important for the control of voluntary urination. Urination (or micturition) is a natural and necessary process important for removing waste
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by Ruth Itzhaki, University of Manchester More than 30m people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s disease – the most common form of dementia. Unfortunately, there is no cure, only drugs to ease the symptoms. However, my latest review, suggests a way to treat the disease. I found the strongest evidence yet that the herpes virus
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Team performs direct patch clamp recording of individual human neurons Human neurons have longer dendrites than rat neurons This affects their integrative properties In a world first, Assistant Prof. Mark Harnett’s group at MIT’s McGovern Institute have explored how individual human neurons integrate and compute information. Using human tissue resected from the brains of
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by Adam Tozer PhD (@adamtozer) • Tiny transparent fish Danionella translucida is just 12 mm in length • Has a brain volume of 0.6 mm3 that contains around 650,000 neurons • Genome editing techniques currently used in zebrafish work in Danionella • New model organism with promising features for the study of vertebrate neural
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