It is the third of its kind in Latin America and will automate functions and speed up results in areas such as human fertility and animal reproduction.After applying for and winning resources from the IX Fondequip 2020 Medium Scientific and Technological Equipment Contest, from the National Research and Development Agency (ANID), the Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO), in Temuco, acquired a sophisticated microscope of Austrian origin, which will allow them to expand the lines of research and advance in cell research.It is the TissueFaxs i Plus developed by the Austrian company TissueGnostics GmbH, an automated workstation that comes with software that learns to recognize certain steps, and then replicates it when analyzing similar samples, which allows, among other things, to automate the functions and obtain results faster.Fabiola Zambrano, co-investigator and co-director of the sperm biology and conservation laboratory at the UFRO School of Medicine, explains that this microscope allows scanning a complete sample and not a single part."Before we had to occupy different teams to reach a single result."The researcher comments that the main difference between this equipment and others has to do with the subsequent evaluation associated with the scanning of samples.“This microscope will allow us to quantify these proteins of interest with associated factors in a fairly precise and reproducible way.The advantages are analysis, automaticity and speed”, she affirms.This is the third team of these characteristics in the region, the other two are in Brazil and will be available to researchers from Chile and the world, since through AI it can be used from other places.It offers a microscopy unit for the study of cell and tissue cultures, both human, animal and plant, with the possibility of analyzing samples in vivo.Zambrano points out that among the lines of research that the university seeks to promote with this new microscope are: Anatomy and Morphological Sciences, Human and Animal Reproduction, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Molecular Pathology, Translational Medicine, among others.Nicolás Ottone, associate professor and director of postgraduate research at the School of Dentistry, directed the project for the application, stressing that "the transversality to multiple areas of research" is one of the characteristics of the microscope.“We seek solutions to infertility problems, and on the other hand, animal reproduction in the field of production.There is also full support with doctorates in morphological sciences, medical sciences and molecular biology.Much research linked to doctoral students will go through this microscope”, says Ottone.Fundadores Building, Badajoz No. 45, 10th floor. Las Condes Subscriptions/Customer Service: Cell: +56 971386534 - Landline: +56 2 23391047 - serviciosalcliente@df.cl.- Business hours from Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.Subscription sales: +56 9 4972 4317 -suscripciones@df.cl - Contact form here Advertising sales: Cell phone: +56 963656769 - ventas@df.cl Central table: 56 - 2 - 23391000