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New Stress Assessment Technique Helps Determine Forces Surrounding Defects in Crystals

All materials found in nature – even the most “perfect” diamond – contain defects, since the atoms inside them are never arranged in perfect order.

2 Aug 2016

New Multi-Photon Microscope Captures 3D Images of Thick Living and Fixed Tissues

You can’t study what you can’t see. That is why the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s Imaging Core is investing in a multi-photon microscope. The new device, which specializes in capturing 3-D images of thick living and fixed tissues, is to be installed at Penn Vet this summer and will enhance the bio-imaging infrastructure there and in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.

22 Jul 2016

Hitachi High-Tech, RIKEN Jointly Launch MirrorCLEM to Simplify Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy

Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (Hitachi High-Tech) and RIKEN, one of Japan’s national institutes for scientific research, announced today that they have jointly developed ”MirrorCLEM,” a system for simplifying correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) which enables the observation of one using both light and scanning electron microscopes (SEM).

22 Jul 2016

New Underwater Microscope Helps Capture Seafloor Inhabitants at Nearly Micrometer Resolution

The Homo sapiens view of our world is all a matter of perspective, and we need to remember that we’re among the larger creatures on Earth. At around 1.7 meters in length, we’re much closer in size to the biggest animals that have ever lived – 30-meter-long blue whales – than the viruses and bacteria that are less than one-millionth our size.

13 Jul 2016

Scientists Use Tiny Mirrors to Better Understand Micron-Scale Structures of Living Cells

A tiny mirror could make a huge difference for scientists trying to understand what's happening in the micron-scale structures of living cells.

17 Jun 2016

Researchers Develop New DNA Imaging Technique to Probe DNA Structure in Nanoscale

Researchers have developed a new enhanced DNA imaging technique that can probe the structure of individual DNA strands at the nanoscale. Since DNA is at the root of many disease processes, the technique could help scientists gain important insights into what goes wrong when DNA becomes damaged or when other cellular processes affect gene expression.

17 Jun 2016

Breakthrough qPAINT Technology Provides Super-Vision to Microscopes

Knowing the exact number of molecules located at specific junctures in cells can be a critical measure of health as well as disease. For example, abnormally high numbers of growth factor receptors on cells can be an indication of cancerous and precancerous states; specific proteins located at the junction where neurons connect in the brain may affect brain function as they accumulate or disperse.

10 Jun 2016

New Flat Lens Could Help Create Exceptionally Small Optical Devices

Researchers have created a new optical lens that is flat, rather than curved like traditional glass lenses. The unique optical properties available from the flat lens could help reduce the size of computer hard drives and create exceptionally small microscopes, among other applications.

8 Jun 2016

Researchers Develop Inexpensive, Versatile Micro-Raman System

Raman spectroscopy has the ability to provide detailed chemical information. It also holds the potential to analyze biological samples non-destructively in combination with a microscope.

7 Jun 2016