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A Flash of Light to Identify Tumors: The Results of the VIBRA Project of the Politecnico di Milano

Funded by ERC and just completed, the project uncovers the cellular mechanisms underlying various diseases thanks to a new optical microscopy technique

14 Oct 2020

Introducing the OpenStand® Motorized Optical Stand from Prior Scientific

The OpenStand is a unique modular platform that allows for easy customization. It is a fully configurable and motorized optical stand, when combined with a range of readily available optics, light sources and accessories, creates a complete customizable optical microscope.

From Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd. 7 Oct 2020

GeoImage™: Fast and Accurate Energy Grading of Coal, Kerogen and Petroleum Source Rock from CRAIC Technologies

Coal, kerogen and petroleum source rock are vital in our search for sources of energy.

From CRAIC Technologies, Inc. 28 Sep 2020

Researchers Use Quantum Optics to Advance State-of-the-Art Microscopy

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used quantum optics to advance state-of-the-art microscopy and illuminate a path to detecting material properties with greater sensitivity than is possible with traditional tools.

9 Sep 2020

Researchers Demonstrate Photoluminescence Imaging with Sub-Nanometer Resolution

Prof. DONG Zhenchao and Prof. HOU Jianguo from University of Science and Technology of China of Chinese Academy of Sciences improved the spatial resolution from 8 nm to ~8 Å of photoluminescence imaging.

31 Aug 2020

New Imaging Technique Provides an Unprecedented Look Inside Cell Membranes

For those not involved in chemistry or biology, picturing a cell likely brings to mind several discrete, blob-shaped objects; maybe the nucleus, mitochondria, ribosomes and the like.

26 Aug 2020

New Actin Imaging Method Could Help Better Understand Mitochondrial Dysfunction

While your skeleton helps your body to move, fine skeleton-like filaments within your cells likewise help cellular structures to move.

11 Aug 2020

Google Healthcare Relies on BitFlow CoaXPress Frame Grabber for Augmented Reality Microscope

BitFlow frame grabber technology has been incorporated into a prototype Augmented Reality Microscope (ARM) platform that researchers at Google AI Healthcare (Mountain View, CA) believe will accelerate the adoption of deep learning tools for pathologists around the world in the critical task of visually examining both biological and physical samples at sub-millimeter scales.

From Bitflow, Inc. 10 Aug 2020

NanoImaging Services Opens New West Coast Facility to Support Continued Growth of Its CryoEM Network

NanoImaging Services, Inc., specialists in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) with a vision to make cryoEM workflows accessible to all, today announced the opening of a new facility close to their San Diego headquarters.

From NanoImaging Services, Inc. (NIS) 10 Aug 2020

New Method to Improve Atomic Force Microscopy of Photosensitive Materials

Atomic force microscopy brought the atomic scale imaging resolution of scanning tunnelling microscopy, a technique that won the Nobel Prize in Physics, to non-conducting surfaces.

6 Aug 2020