Testimonials

"With SomaFocus, you can potentially elucidate which neuronal cell type(s) are being affected by the disease or by a drug. That’s something you can’t do with MEA, and it’s incredibly valuable for drug discovery. One way to do this is by spike waveform analysis, for example, with very narrow action potentials representing parvalbumin-positive interneurons."

Stuart Lipton

Principal Investigator- Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Professor- Neurology, Yale School of Medicine

"I'm genuinely blown away by the SomaFocus system. We've tested several MEA platforms over the years and were never able to generate meaningful data from our organoid models, until now. SomaFocus has completely changed the game for us."

Andrea Rossi

Lab Head - Genome Engineering & Model Development Core Unit IUF-Leibniz Institute

"Deep Array probes have been the workhorse in my lab for over two years, with consistently strong results. The build quality is excellent, and the variety of channel counts and configurations gives us many options with a short lead time."

Chris Fetsch

The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute Johns Hopkins University, USA

Brain Area: Lateral intraparietal cortex Species: NHP

"The signal quality of these probes with TDT Zif-Clip connectors is superb; we've been implanting them as fast as we can get our hands on them. The amount of data that becomes unusable due to noise is dramatically reduced compared to some of the other probes we've used in the past. "

Drew Maurer

Lab Head, University of Florida, USA

Brain area: Hippocampus Species: Rat

"For our application combining chronic imaging and electrophysiology, 3-D chronic probe stacks mounted on nano-Drives are unparalleled... allowing high signal-to-noise, high-density recording across multiple regions. Our project would not be possible without this technology."

Gyorgy Buzsaki

Lab Head, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA

Brain Area: cortex Species: Mouse

"My students and I unanimously prefer these probes over various others that we have tried. The signal to noise ratio is excellent, and the design is sturdy and robust. For acute recordings, these are the best-engineered and most user-friendly probes I've worked with."

Sara Aton

Lab Head, University of Michigan, USA

Brain area: Hippocampus Species: Mice

"I used the electrode yesterday, and its performance was stellar! I hope we can order more soon. "

Maxym Myroshnychenko

Lab of Christopher Lapish, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, USA

Brain Area: Prefrontal cortex. Species: Rat

"…the units were probably the best I have ever seen in that brain region so my initial impressions are very good."

Tim Brown

Lab Head, University of Manchester, UK

Brain Area: LGN and hypothalamus Species: Mouse (anaesthetised)

"These probes offer the best signal quality we have seen in this region of the brain to date, lots of beautiful and sortable spikes."

Sarah Fox

Lab of Rasmus Petersen, University of Manchester, UK

Brain Area: VPM Thalamus Species: Mouse (head-fixed)

"I don't see any limit to the number of times we can reuse the acute probes. We must have used them around 30 times each so far and can't really see a substantial decline."

Kevin Bolding

Lab of Kevin Franks, Duke University, USA

Brain area: Olfactory bulb Species: Mice

"The signal to noise ratio is outstanding among the commercial products we have tried so far. The flexibility of the probe shanks is a huge plus to acute recording - less worry about breaking them."

Yiming Chen

Lab of Zac Knight, USCF, USA.

Brain Area: Subcortical regions Species: Mouse

"The signal to noise ratio on these probes is so good that we were immediately able to detect small amplitude spikes after a first pass of the raw data traces through the KlustaSuite! I was astonished at how easy it was to detect spikes with these probes, especially after many failed attempts with hand made tetrodes."

Boleslaw Osinski

Lab of Leslie Kay, University of Chicago, USA

Brain area: Olfactory bulb Species: Rat

"I got beautiful 'multi-multi' single cell recordings using both your acute 32 channel and 64 channel probes in rodents. The recording quality was truly incredible with huge spikes all over the place; definitely some of the best recordings I have seen using silicon probes so far!!"

Nicolas Mallett

Lab Head, University of Bordeaux, France.

Brain area: Striatum and globus pallidus Species: Rats and Mice