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PI Offers New Brochure on Piezo Ceramic Linear Motors

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of ultra-precision motion-control and sensing equipment for bio / nanotechnology, photonics, semiconductor and life science applications -- offers a new brochure on pie...

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 28 Oct 2007

Cutting-Edge Laser Innovations Award

Call for international Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis - November 30, 2007 is Deadline for Submissions

27 Oct 2007

Cutting-Edge Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility Available to Researchers

A $41 million national research facility to provide cutting-edge microscopy and microanalysis capability to all Australian researcherswas launched by the Federal Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, at the University of Sydney today (27 September 2007).

27 Oct 2007

Imagine Optic to Spearhead Consortium to Develop New Technology for Detecting and Treating Neurological Disorders

As part of its ongoing commitment to expand the applications of adaptive optics in bioimaging, Imagine Optic will spearhead the MICADO (MICroscopy improved with ADaptive Optics) consortium that will unite France’s leading experts in the fields of neuroscience and cellular imaging to develop new technology for detecting and treating neurological disorders.

25 Oct 2007

New Laser Could Lead to Ultrahigh Resolution Microscopes for Imaging in Biology

In a major feat of nanotechnology engineering researchers from Harvard University have demonstrated a laser with a wide-range of potential applications in chemistry, biology and medicine. Called a quantum cascade (QC) laser nanoantenna, the device is capable of resolving the chemical composition of samples, such as the interior of a cell, with unprecedented detail.

23 Oct 2007

Two-Color Two-Photon Absorption Has Been Used to Image Blood Vessels

A US team has developed a technique to image hemoglobin in red blood cells with micrometer resolution, but without the need to inject external contrast agents or dyes into the blood. The method might also differentiate between oxy- and deoxyhemoglobin, which would be a crucial step in cancer studies. (Optics Letters, 32, 2641).

18 Oct 2007

Cause of Cataracts Pinpointed with AFM Imaging

At the Institut Curie, Simon Scheuring, beneficiary of the Inserm Avenir program and coordinator of the CNRS/Inserm "Atomic force microscopy (AFM) of proteins in native membranes" team, has for the first time observed a diseased tissue at very high resolution using atomic force microscopy (AFM).

16 Oct 2007

Researchers Produced Material That Can Bend Light in Opposite Direction

A Princeton-led research team has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. This startling property may contribute to significant advances in many areas, including high-speed communications, medical diagnostics and detection of terrorist threats.

14 Oct 2007

Micron-Scale Metallic Marking Grid Could Improve Understanding, Diagnosis of Alzheimer's and Other Diseases

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method for correlating the results of microscopic imaging techniques in a way that could lead to improved understanding, diagnosis, and possibly treatment of a variety of disease conditions, including Alzheimer's disease. The Laboratory has filed a U.S. provisional patent application for the invention.

11 Oct 2007