Deben, a leading provider of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for microscopy, reports on how University of Ghent have used the Deben CT5000 to study the Uniaxial Compressive Strength of four different depositional limestones. Sourced from the Paris Basin these limestones are often used as building material in France and Belgium. The University’s work was performed using HECTOR µCT partnered with...

The Videometerlab4 Multispectral Imaging System from Analytik now makes it possible to scan crop samples for Fusarium infection in under 10 seconds. The analytical methodology employed does not require traditional time-consuming sample preparation and eliminates the need for chemicals and costly consumables. Fusarium is a fungal disease which commonly affects wheat, barley, oats, triticale and grasses as seeds, seedlings and adult plants. The range of symptoms caused by...

Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, has announced its G:BOX Chemi XX6 multi-application imager is being utilised by scientists at a major London university to speed up analysis of proteins, DNA and cells associated with breast and a range of other cancer types. Scientists at the university are using a G:BOX Chemi XX6 multi-application imager to rapidly detect changes in DNA and protein expressed in human breast and other cancer tissues...

CytoSMART, the Eindhoven-based company that develops and manufactures digital microscopes for monitoring live cell cultures, has received 5.2 million Euros to fund the growth of their business. CytoSMART has created three highly innovative microscopes that scientists can use to digitally and remotely count, screen, check, and film their cell cultures. CytoSMART’s latest microscope is the Omni, the world’s fastest live-cell imager

FLIR Systems has partnered with MathWorks® to offer MATLAB software solutions for its R&D/Science grade thermal camera users. As a result of this cooperation - FLIR R&D/Science grade thermal cameras now integrate seamlessly into MATLAB. The FLIR cameras are fully GigE Vision and GeniCam compliant, which makes controlling them remotely and streaming fully temperature-calibrated thermal images into MATLAB very straightforward. There is no need for translation of vendor specific...

BD FACSDuet™ system raises the bar on flow cytometry automation offering a fully integrated sample-to-answer solution with the BD FACSLyric™ clinical flow cytometer. BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has announced the CE-IVD certification for the BD FACSDuet™ automated flow cytometry system. The new fully automated sample preparation instrument enables clinical laboratories to improve their efficiency by reducing errors....

One main advantage of using a digital microscope during quality control is how easily operators can create photo documentation of their work. However, issues arise when the object is not flat, resulting in blurred or out of focus areas on the image. Solution? Stacking photos with varying focus heights on top of each other for one ultra-sharp image. Solution? Stacking photos with varying focus heights on top of each other for one ultra-sharp image....

Coconut water has seen a recent boom in popularity. It is a very lucrative market, with London, England, being the biggest consumer of coconut water in the world (per head). There are at least 40 brands of coconut water in the United Kingdom alone and it can cost up to £4 per litre. With only five countries in the world supplying the majority of coconut water to the West, this surge...

ZEISS ZEN Connect for the materials research lab. ZEISS ZEN Connect software module is now available for materials researchers at universities, multi-user facilities or industrial labs. It enables users to bring all imaging technologies together – ZEISS or otherwise – to answer their questions. Gaining unique insights and saving time. ZEISS ZEN Connect allows users to align and overlay images from any source. Researchers can use the workflow of...

Technology innovators in super-resolution microscopy, Amsterdam-based Confocal.nl, are running workshops on Re-scan Confocal Microscopy with demonstrations to illustrate the use of use of the technique. Confocal.nl are running a series of workshops on their ground-breaking technology, Re-scan Confocal Microscope (RCM). With a camera-based detection scheme, RCM offers an easy-to-use confocal system with high resolution and sensitivity in a cost-effective package...

Holotomography (HT) technology enables rapid, high-resolution, label-free, quantitative 3D imaging of healthy and dying cells. Although Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a relatively common neurodegenerative disease, therapeutic treatments are still limited due to its complex pathophysiology. Now, a Korean research team led by Su-A Yang and Jonghee Yoon of the KAIST Institute of Health Science and Technology in Daejeon, has demonstrated...

With years of experience in the pharmaceutical and life science sector, Creative Diagnostics recently released gold nanochains with a large specific surface area and high load capacity. These nanochains can be easily surface-modified, and are suitable for biological immunoassay, protein labeling, dark-field imaging optics, fluorescence enhancement, surface-enhanced Raman substrates and drug carriers, etc.

The Leica Biosystems " Innoivators Circle" offers cutting edge articles committed to the latest advances in digital pathology. Read the fist issue now - Real-Time Focusing: Breakthrough Innovation in Optics. Leica Biosystems is always innovating across our 12 global Research and Development sites. Over the last several years, our digital pathology engineers in Pathology Imaging have approached many different ways to achieve extremely high-speed line scanning at 40x magnification....

The VideometerLab 4 from Analytik (Cambridge, UK) is a multispectral imaging and automated visual measurement system designed for fast and accurate determination of surface colour, texture, shape, size and chemical composition. The easy-to-use instrument provides a rapid assessment of uniform and non-homogeneous samples by combining information on all of the above parameters automatically in just a few seconds, requiring no sample preparation and leaving the sample intact....

Could rubber and plastic from tyres, washing into rivers and streams, be contributing to pollution in waste water? A group of scientists from Denmark are using a system from Renishaw to find out. Microplastics are small, hard-to-spot, particles that make their way—from products and packaging—into the environment and cause significant pollution. The Danish Technological Institute (DTI, Aarhus, Denmark) is using a Renishaw Raman spectroscopy system to...