Transcend Vivoscope to Offer Turnkey Miniature Two-photon Imaging Systems with poLight ASA Tunable Optics

05 Oct 2024 16:00 CEST

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HORTEN, Norway - October 5, 2024 -- poLight ASA (OSE: PLT) today announced that
Transcend Vivoscope, a leader in biomedical imaging, will debut the SUPERNOVA
-600, their latest miniature turnkey solution of two-photon microscopy (mTPM),
at the Neuroscience 2024 conference in Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 5-9. The
SUPERNOVA-600 incorporates TLens® tunable optics for real-time optimal
microscopic in vivo imaging of neuronal and cellular activities in the brain,
advancing research in cognition, drug development, and diseases including
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, epilepsy, and others. For more information, visit
Transcend Vivoscope (https://en.tv-scope.com/).

"The SUPERNOVA-600, our latest flagship product, offers flexible and diverse
combination configurations," said Dr. Wu Runlong, Director of R&D at Transcend
Vivoscope. "It allows for the real-time synchronization of microscopic neuronal
and synaptic activity with the overall information processing of the brain and
individual behaviours, providing a panoramic analysis of connectomes and
functional dynamic maps. This technology ensures more efficient, stable, and
continuous output of high-quality data, offering researchers an ideal
comprehensive solution for free-moving animal imaging. The low-power, fast,
autofocus capabilities of the TLens® enable rapid and precise focal adjustments,
ensuring optimal imaging quality. We look forward to leveraging TLens® in our
full SUPERNOVA product portfolio."

"Following the Kavli Institute's use of TLens® in their miniature two-photon
innovation and subsequent Nobel Prize, we have seen strong interest in this
unique device from many research groups around the world," said Dr. Oyvind
Isaksen, CEO of poLight ASA. "We are excited to see another commercial player
supplying the tools and resources to accelerate the deployment of mTPM systems,
and we look forward to a long-term relationship with Transcend Vivoscope."

Following the successful debut of the SUPERNOVA-100, a compact mTPM imaging
system, during Neuroscience 2023, Transcend Vivoscope will exhibit the entire
SUPERNOVA family in booth #357 at the Neuroscience 2024 conference.

Further information from:

Dr. Øyvind Isaksen, CEO, poLight ASA: +47 90 87 63 98

About poLight ASA

poLight ASA (OSE: PLT) offers a patented, proprietary tunable optics technology,
starting with its first product, TLens® which replicates "the human eye"
experience in autofocus cameras used in devices such as smartphones, wearables,
barcode scanners, machine vision systems and various medical equipment.
poLight's TLens® enables better system performance and new user experiences due
to benefits such as extremely fast focus, small footprint, no magnetic
interference, low power consumption and constant field of view. poLight is based
in Horten, Norway, with employees in Finland, France, UK, Germany, US, China,
Taiwan, Philippines and Japan. For more information, please visit
https://www.polight.com

About Transcend Vivoscope

Founded by the multidisciplinary team of scientists led by Prof. Cheng Heping of
Peking University in 2016, Beijing Transcend Vivoscope Bio-Technology Co., Ltd.
(Transcend Vivoscope) has grown into one of the most innovative companies in
China. With its cutting-edge miniature two-photon microscopy technology,
Transcend Vivoscope has specialized in providing the most advanced imaging
products and solutions to empower neuroscience researchers worldwide.

In 2017, the company acquired clear images of the brain cells and subcellular
structures of free-behaving mice for the first time in the world and has since
then developed and commercialized a series of miniature two-photon microscopy
imaging systems for neuroscience. This technology, along with other free-moving
animal imaging technologies, was recognized as "Method of the Year 2018 - -
Imaging in freely behaving animals" by Nature Methods. For more information,
please visit https://en.tv-scope.com

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