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LifeCanvas Technologies is committed to providing sample-to-answer solutions in tissue processing to significantly improve and expedite research in deciphering complex biological systems.

The company is developing and commercializing breakthrough tools that enable three-dimensional investigation of a tissue’s molecular and structural information through rapid clearing and staining while preserving key tissue architecture, subcellular details and long-range connections. Our mission is to fast-track advancements in life sciences to improve human health.

LifeCanvas Technologies is founded by researchers and engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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• No more complicated and slow sample processing
• Easy. Fast. Affordable.

Say good bye to bulky and expensive water baths, incubators and shakers. The LifeCanvas Technologies all-in-one EasyClear multi-purpose sample processing device helps you achieve your goals faster, cheaper and easier by empowering you with a full touch screen control for temperature (20-90°C), tilting angle (0-60°), and shaking speed (0-120rpm) of all individual samples and batches. One EasyClear can process 10 samples simultaneously at different temperatures while keeping your sample damage free.

It’s so simple to use that tissue processing is hassle-free even for first timers.

• Simplicity – Easy temperature control with touch screen interface. You no longer need to stress over problems caused by water baths such as water evaporation and contamination of samples by bath solutions etc.
• Speed – Optimal shaking with precise temperature control makes tissue processing significantly faster than incubating samples in traditional water baths that are missing shaking functions.
• Cost-efficiency – With one EasyClear you can process 10 samples simultaneously at different temperature points from 20°C to 90°C. Conventional methods would require several water baths and shakers, which will cost you substantially more than buying just one EasyClear.

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• Fully automated all-in-one turnkey system
• Easy, fast, and reliable
• Maximum preservation of fluorescent protein (FP) signals
• No tissue damage or contamination
• Cost-effective and eco-friendly
• Based on patent-pending stochastic electrotransport technology developed at MIT (Kim et al., PNAS, 2015).

LifeCanvas Technologies SmartClear II is ideal for clearing CLARITY (Nature, 2013), SWITCH (Cell, 2015), MAP (Nature Biotechnology, 2016) samples.

Clear fast with no tissue damage: Fast, Easy, and Reliable

• Fast & Easy: Orders of magnitude faster than passive clearing. Our ready-to-use technologies bring plug-and-play options and minimum maintenance to clearing.
• Reliable: Safe tissue clearing with stochastic electrotransport technology. No tissue contamination, tissue browning, black gunk formation or tissue deformation.
• Perfect Clearing with Maximal Preservation of FP Signal
• Optical Clarity: Minimum light scatter. Removes lipid best for best antibody diffusion. Optimal imaging and staining quality by completely removing lipids. Perfectly compatible with SmartLabel, our rapid staining system for intact samples.

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