Fluoresence in-situ Hybridization Microscopy Services

“FISH” (Fluoresence in-situ Hybridization) is a powerful tool for investigating the relative abundance and physical characteristics of different populations of microorganisms. FISH combines fluorescence microscopy with oligonucleotide probes--precisely designed DNA sequences conjugated with fluorescent molecules that are used to “tag,” visualize and quantify specific microbes of interest. Geovation’s multi-color FISH (“mFISH”) lab uses multiple probes with different color fluorochromes to simultaneously provide quantitative information on different sub-populations in the same sample. Geovation offers several mFISH assays to provide relatively rapid and cost-effective enumeration of important groups of microorganisms relative to other methods.