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Carl Zeiss and Navitar Sign Licensing Agreement

Navitar, Inc., a global leader in optical technology, today announced a new licensing agreement with German optics manufacturer Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH. Under the terms of the contract, Carl Zeiss will license Navitar’s Hoffman Modulation Contrast® (HMC®) trademark for use in their iHMC product line.

From Navitar Inc. 30 Oct 2011

Olympus BX3 Microscope Gets True Colour LED Technology for Histology and Cytology

Olympus provides its versatile, powerful BX3 clinical microscope systems for analysis and disease diagnosis in pathology and cytology. The systems take advantage of Olympus’s new true colour LED illumination technology and built in Light Intensity Manager (LIM).

27 Oct 2011

Nathaniel Introduces Innovative Light Technology for Medical and Industrial Illumination

Nathaniel Group, a provider of specialty optical equipment, has added the Hyperion 300 Optical Fiber Illuminator to its portfolio of products for optimizing light for industrial, medical and scientific applications.

27 Oct 2011

Carl Zeiss License Multidirectional Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy Technology

Carl Zeiss has received a license from the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) for the commercialization of “Multidirectional Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy” (mSPIM).

24 Oct 2011

Digital Pathology Enhanced By Leica's Complete Case Management Solution

Leica Microsystems announce the launch of its clinical workflow solution for Digital Pathology at Pathology Visions 2011.
Digital Image Hub Enterprise with its powerful image management, integration and communication capabilities, in conjunction with a new high performance, intuitive client viewer, SlidePath Gateway, combine to make this the ideal solution for clinical centers moving towards true Digital Pathology implementation. Furthermore, Leica’s Total Digital Pathology solutions now provide an implementation of the DICOM Supplement 145 standard for both slide scanning and viewing.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 24 Oct 2011

3D Silver Nano Funnel Converts Infrared Laser Pulses To EUV Light Flashes

Nano funnels can be used to efficiently concentrate light. Scientists belonging to the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany,

20 Oct 2011

CRANN Scientist Earns Nanoscience Award for Advancement in Scanning Probe Microscopy and Spectroscopy

Professor John Boland, who serves as Director at CRANN, a nanoscience institute funded by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and located at Trinity College Dublin, has received the 2011 ACSIN Nanoscience Prize for his exceptional work in the advancement and application of scanning probe spectroscopy and microscopy and the application of these instruments in the analysis of physical and chemical phenomena of materials.

10 Oct 2011

Memorial National College Grants Award Program Announced For The 37th Year

The Pittsburgh Conference and its sponsoring societies, the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP) and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP), are now accepting proposals for the 2012 Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grants (PCMNCG) Award Program.

From Pittcon 9 Oct 2011

TESCAN Launches Plasma Source FIB Integrated Field Emission SEM

TESCAN has launched a high-resolution Schottky field emission scanning electron microscope (SEM) named the FERA3 XMH with a built-in xenon plasma source-based focused ion beam (FIB).

7 Oct 2011

Leica Science Lab provides a Knowledgebase on Microscopy and Histology

Leica Science Lab, the knowledge portal of Leica Microsystems, offers scientific research and teaching material on the subjects of microscopy and histology, from the basics to specific application know-how.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 5 Oct 2011