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New Microscope Techniques Help Understand How Malaria Parasites Move into Person' Skin from Mosquito

Motility mechanism of malaria pathogens explained / Heidelberg researchers publish in Cell Host & Microbe

24 Dec 2009

Using Atomic Force Microscope, Researchers Study Nanoscale Structure of Bone Collagen

Using a technique that provides detailed images of nanoscale structures, researchers at the University of Michigan and Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital have discovered changes in the collagen component of bone that directly relate to bone health.

23 Dec 2009

Chemist Uses Spectroscopic Techniques to Observe Catalysts

Baking the perfect soufflé depends on timing, good ingredients and the right proportions. Exactly the same thing applies to catalysts - the materials that make a chemical reaction work faster or better. Dutch-sponsored researcher Leticia Espinosa Alonso now knows how to make a perfect catalyst, thanks to new techniques.

22 Dec 2009

Scientists Develop 4D Electron Microscopy to Image Nanoscale Photons

4D electron microscopy makes it possible to image photons of nanoscale structures and visualize their architecture

17 Dec 2009

Microscopy Helps Study Role of Nondegradative Autophagosomes in Degenerative Disease

It's important to finish what you start, say Jeong-Sun Ju and researchers from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

15 Dec 2009

Bruker Nano Announces Upgraded N8 TITANOS Atomic Force Microscope

Bruker Nano today announced that its N8 TITANOS™ large-sample inspection AFM has been further improved to provide highest spatial resolving power

11 Dec 2009

Olympus Announces New Super Corrected 60x, NA 1.4 Microscope Objective

The new super corrected Olympus 60x, NA 1.4 microscope objective is the world’s best-corrected microscope objective lens, designed to deliver its optimal levels of performance using light at wavelengths not only up to 650nm, but down to the unprecedented 405nm wavelength as well. It is useful for cell biologists, neuroscientists and others using lasers for imaging inter- and intracellular detail in biological specimens.

8 Dec 2009

Olympus Launches cell^TIRF Microscope Illuminator

Olympus, the world leader in objective-based total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy, has announced another significant leap forward in multicolor TIRF imaging

4 Dec 2009

Nikon Secures License for Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy Technology

Nikon Corporation, an innovator of advanced optical instruments, announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Harvard University granting Nikon the rights to use the Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM) technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Nikon will manufacture STORM enabled microscopy systems and market them with the N-STORM name.

4 Dec 2009