Pumpy enables automated sample fluid exchange on the microscope, allowing complex workflows to be streamlined without the need for any specialised equipment, consumables or user hands-on engagement. A preprint in BioRxiv showcases what Pumpy can do by performing live-to-fixed correlative imaging, multi-step staining protocols and multi-modal super-resolution microscopy - all without ever removing the sample from the microscope and with virtually no user involvement. 

Pumpy is fun and inexpensive to build, as well as easy-to-use. It is fully open-source; instructions on how to replicate Pumpy and get your own Pumpy pumping can be found in the Henriques Lab Wiki.

 

Read all the details in BioRxiv.