Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of sensitive image analysis solutions, is proud to announce its G:BOX Chemi XRQ is being used by scientists at a well-respected European University to accurately detect proteins in metabolic disorders including diabetes.
Researchers at the major university are using a G:BOX Chemi XRQ multi-task imager to precisely analyse agarose gels of mouse and rabbit DNA stained with the safe fluorescent dye SybrSafe®. They are also utilising the G:BOX Chemi XRQ to easily image both large and small SDS-PAGE gels and chemiluminescent Western blots of proteins. This is allowing scientists at the university to accurately detect proteins and is contributing to identifying potential therapeutic targets in...
LaVison BioTec, developers of advanced microscopy solutions for the life sciences, report on the research of Dr Peter Friedl and his imaging of cancer growth using intravital microscopy.
Peter Friedl holds the chair for Microscopical Imaging of the Cell at the St. Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He also holds a 20% joint-appointment as head of the imaging section at the David H. Koch Center, Department of Genitourinary Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. His research work focuses on imaging cancer growth, metastasis and therapy response in the...
Fast, efficient and non-destructive towards precious samples, light microscopy plays a vital role throughout forensic science operations, especially in Dr Kevin Farrugia’s laboratory.
Employing the Olympus DSX100 Opto-digital system, Dr Farrugia’s research at the University of Abertay (Dundee, Scotland) has been greatly enhanced through a combination of digital and optical technologies. Such advanced light microscopy has yielded greater insights into a variety of forensic samples, revealing fingerprints on metal, pen marks on paper and characterising unique designs on seized illicit tablets...
On Monday 10th November, Dame Janet Trotter, Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, presented Renishaw with its seventeenth Queen's Award.
This prestigious award was granted for the continuous development of the company's inVia Raman microscope, with ultra-fast Raman imaging, which enables the rapid generation of high definition 2D and 3D chemical images for material analysis. This Queen's Award for Enterprise 2014, granted in the Innovations category, is particularly special, as it is the first to recognise Renishaw's achievements outside of the field of industrial metrology...
High quality digital microscopy is now more accessible than ever with the new 5 Megapixel SC50 microscope camera from Olympus, bringing fast, Full HD live imaging and more to a host of routine applications.
Designed for the convenience of everyday use and ideal under low light conditions, the new 5 megapixel SC50 microscope camera from Olympus is built on the latest CMOS chip technology to deliver improved speed, sensitivity and resolution at a truly affordable price. Achieving Full HD images at 32 fps, high speed imaging with the SC50 captures and records dynamic events. The camera delivers clear, high quality images to nearly every kind of...
Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments have launched their first educational videos to help introduce users to some of the new thermal microscopy techniques and associated testing methods.
NanoHybrids Corporation, a provider of nanotechnology-based contrast agents announced the launch of its new website and premium product line of gold nanoparticles specially designed to improve imaging results.
The company’s initial technology platform was developed in collaboration with researchers from the Biomedical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. “Frustrated by inconsistent imaging results due to highly variable shape, size and other properties of commercially available gold nanoparticle contrast agents, our team has developed highly monodisperse gold nanorods and nanospheres that will help scientists obtain consistent and better quality data....
XEI Scientific Inc. announces the release of the Evactron® EP at the annual meeting of the American Vacuum Society in Baltimore, MD.
This provides a new approach to plasma cleaning designed for those in the physics and materials science communities building and using custom-designed vacuum systems. The Evactron EP Remote Plasma Source from XEI Scientific uses flowing afterglow cleaning with air to clean carbon compounds from vacuum chambers operating with turbomolecular pumps. The unique new system has instant ignition from any vacuum level...
Imaging companies in Europe get closer to scientists by founding an open Board linked to the upcoming European research infrastructure Euro-BioImaging
Leading imaging companies Leica, Nikon, Zeiss, FEI, Olympus, SVI and Photometrics announced last week that for the first time they jointly founded an open Industry Board linked to the upcoming European research infrastructure for imaging “Euro-BioImaging”. The mission of the Board is to facilitate interaction between imaging industry and its academic users, enabling timely understanding of the users’ needs. This has potential to...
ZEISS present new microscope hard- and software for imaging of cleared tissue at Neuroscience meeting
Clearing methods make tissue transparent, thus allowing scientists to image deep into large biological samples such as tissue sections, brains, embryos, organs, spheroids or biopsies. The enhanced optical penetration depth even allows detection of fluorescent signals from whole organs. This means clearing is a promising technique when, for example, investigating neuronal networks in mouse brains....
Read MoreLaVision BioTec Launch New Products at Neuroscience 2014Nov 26, 2014
LaVison BioTec introduce new products for their UltraMicroscope and TriM Scope microscopy products at the 2014 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
LaVision BioTec announce the release of several ground-breaking new products at the 2014 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience to be held in Washington DC, November 15-19. Delegates are invited to visit LaVision on Booth #817 to meet the product group and learn about the latest innovations from the company. TriM Scope II is an intravital 2-photon microscope. Three new developments are announced at the meeting. First is a...
With the new Olympus cellSens imaging software offering new functions and support for the latest microscopy hardware, life science researchers can now observe and react to the most elusive events taking place within biological samples.
Assisting researchers in gaining a deeper understanding of dynamic biological processes, the new cellSens imaging software (version 1.12) ensures the most efficient use of valuable time-lapse experiments and the latest microscopy hardware. Building on the capabilities introduced by Olympus with its unique Graphical Experiment Manager (GEM) interface, cellSens 1.12 allows the user to truly get in touch with their sample. Enabling effortless...
Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, are working with French instrument company, Xenocs, to provide the facility to perform X-ray experiments under changing temperature and/or tensile conditions.
Linkam is pleased to announce that their temperature stages have been chosen by Xenocs to incorporate in their recently launched Nano-inXider X-ray characterisation system opening new perspectives in many research fields. Xenocs is a French instrument company formed as a spinout from the Laue Langevin Institute. The company provides solutions for nanomaterial characterisation using Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering technique...
A novel super-resolution fluorescence microscope equipped with a low-noise, high-speed 5.5 Megapixel Andor Neo sCMOS camera has enabled the real-time nanoscopic imaging of large fields of living cells for the first time.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Goettingen, Germany, adopted massive parallelisation techniques to create 116,000 simultaneous scanning points and super-resolve 120 µm × 100 µm fields in less than a second. The research was led by Professor Stefan Hell, who first advanced STED (Stimulated Emission Depletion) and RESOLFT (Reversible Saturable/Switchable Optical Fluorescence Transitions) far-field, super-resolution microscopy...
JPK Instruments reports on the use of the JPK NanoWizard® AFM system at ITAV, the Institut des Technologies Avancées en science du Vivant, in Toulouse in the South of France.
Dr Childérick Severac manages the Bionanotechnologies Platform at ITAV (Institut des Technologies Avancées en science du Vivant) on the site of the new Oncopole campus dedicated to cancer research. His research activities may be divided into two parts: his own research and the research activity he does for others in the form of providing a collaborative imaging service. Dr Severac's research focuses on the development of...
Highest speed for brain research with ZEISS MultiSEM 5
At the annual Neuroscience meeting in Washington, D.C., November 15-19, 2014, ZEISS will present ZEISS MultiSEM 505, its new scanning electron microscope (SEM). As the first SEM in the world, the system features 61 beams working in parallel, and offers an unrivaled capture speed of 1220 megapixels per second at a pixel size of 4 nm. This high acquisition speed is used for imaging neural tissue in brain research where it is now possible to observe much bigger...
Syngene is delighted to introduce the vibrant new T:Genius imaging system, which unlike any other imager on the market, allows high performance, walk-away imaging of gels and blots on a smartphone or tablet.
What makes the new T:Genius outperform other commercial imagers is the amazing ability to quickly and easily access stunning quality images anywhere from a tablet, computer or smartphone. Using the T:Genius’ clever ‘StatusLink’ feature researchers can stay updated and even share image results with colleagues in other labs, no matter whether they are down the hall or in another country. This is a great time saver when, for instance, scientists are...
Building on the success and principles of SMART Automation, Sakura Finetek proudly introduces the next step in Total Laboratory Automation: Tissue-Tek® AutoSection® Automated Microtome, advancing histopathology laboratories and improving patient care.
PIE Scientific, a leader in low pressure high efficiency plasma source manufacturing, has recently released a revolutionary downstream plasma cleaner---SEMI-KLEEN plasma cleaner.
It is designed to meet the toughest contamination requirements from the semiconductor capital equipment industry. The revolutionary low plasma potential discharge technique greatly reduces the risk of ion sputtering damage. Together with a proprietary two-stage filter gas delivery system, SEMI-KLEEN plasma cleaner has been proven capable of meeting particle contamination requirement for sub 10nm nodes....
High Throughput Screening for Raman chemical analyzers
HORIBA Scientific, a leading innovator in the manufacture of high performance scientific and analytical equipment, is announcing the release of its new MultiWell module for the acclaimed LabSpec 6 Spectroscopy Suite. The module transforms the HORIBA portfolio of Raman microscopes into efficient high throughput chemical analyzers, coupling the non-destructive chemically rich analysis with high sample turn around and fast return on...
JPK Instruments reports on the use of their AFM system, the NanoWizard®, in the Nanobiosciences Group of the Institute of Physical & Theoretical Chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig.
It is being used to study DNA and DNA nanostructures. Dr Philip Tinnefeld is Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at the Technische Universität Braunschweig where he runs a laboratory which specialises in the field of NanoBioScience. His group has pioneered the integration of DNA origami with optical single-molecule spectroscopy over the last few years. In this context, they have demonstrated some of the early applications where the breakthroughs of...
Improved imaging tools to better understand the brain
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its first research grants through President Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative, including three awards to the University of California, Berkeley, totaling nearly $7.5 million over three years. In addition, a $12 million public-private collaboration between ZEISS and UC Berkeley to support the Berkeley Brain Microscopy Innovation Center (BrainMIC) was made public. The US Brain initiative is focused on advancing tool development in...
Researchers at the major university are using a G:BOX Chemi XRQ multi-task imager to precisely analyse agarose gels of mouse and rabbit DNA stained with the safe fluorescent dye SybrSafe®. They are also utilising the G:BOX Chemi XRQ to easily image both large and small SDS-PAGE gels and chemiluminescent Western blots of proteins. This is allowing scientists at the university to accurately detect proteins and is contributing to identifying potential therapeutic targets in...
Peter Friedl holds the chair for Microscopical Imaging of the Cell at the St. Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He also holds a 20% joint-appointment as head of the imaging section at the David H. Koch Center, Department of Genitourinary Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. His research work focuses on imaging cancer growth, metastasis and therapy response in the...
Employing the Olympus DSX100 Opto-digital system, Dr Farrugia’s research at the University of Abertay (Dundee, Scotland) has been greatly enhanced through a combination of digital and optical technologies. Such advanced light microscopy has yielded greater insights into a variety of forensic samples, revealing fingerprints on metal, pen marks on paper and characterising unique designs on seized illicit tablets... 
This prestigious award was granted for the continuous development of the company's inVia Raman microscope, with ultra-fast Raman imaging, which enables the rapid generation of high definition 2D and 3D chemical images for material analysis. This Queen's Award for Enterprise 2014, granted in the Innovations category, is particularly special, as it is the first to recognise Renishaw's achievements outside of the field of industrial metrology...
Designed for the convenience of everyday use and ideal under low light conditions, the new 5 megapixel SC50 microscope camera from Olympus is built on the latest CMOS chip technology to deliver improved speed, sensitivity and resolution at a truly affordable price. Achieving Full HD images at 32 fps, high speed imaging with the SC50 captures and records dynamic events. The camera delivers clear, high quality images to nearly every kind of...
The company’s initial technology platform was developed in collaboration with researchers from the Biomedical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. “Frustrated by inconsistent imaging results due to highly variable shape, size and other properties of commercially available gold nanoparticle contrast agents, our team has developed highly monodisperse gold nanorods and nanospheres that will help scientists obtain consistent and better quality data....
This provides a new approach to plasma cleaning designed for those in the physics and materials science communities building and using custom-designed vacuum systems. The Evactron EP Remote Plasma Source from XEI Scientific uses flowing afterglow cleaning with air to clean carbon compounds from vacuum chambers operating with turbomolecular pumps. The unique new system has instant ignition from any vacuum level...
Leading imaging companies Leica, Nikon, Zeiss, FEI, Olympus, SVI and Photometrics announced last week that for the first time they jointly founded an open Industry Board linked to the upcoming European research infrastructure for imaging “Euro-BioImaging”. The mission of the Board is to facilitate interaction between imaging industry and its academic users, enabling timely understanding of the users’ needs. This has potential to...
Clearing methods make tissue transparent, thus allowing scientists to image deep into large biological samples such as tissue sections, brains, embryos, organs, spheroids or biopsies. The enhanced optical penetration depth even allows detection of fluorescent signals from whole organs. This means clearing is a promising technique when, for example, investigating neuronal networks in mouse brains....
LaVision BioTec announce the release of several ground-breaking new products at the 2014 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience to be held in Washington DC, November 15-19. Delegates are invited to visit LaVision on Booth #817 to meet the product group and learn about the latest innovations from the company. TriM Scope II is an intravital 2-photon microscope. Three new developments are announced at the meeting. First is a...
Assisting researchers in gaining a deeper understanding of dynamic biological processes, the new cellSens imaging software (version 1.12) ensures the most efficient use of valuable time-lapse experiments and the latest microscopy hardware. Building on the capabilities introduced by Olympus with its unique Graphical Experiment Manager (GEM) interface, cellSens 1.12 allows the user to truly get in touch with their sample. Enabling effortless...
Linkam is pleased to announce that their temperature stages have been chosen by Xenocs to incorporate in their recently launched Nano-inXider X-ray characterisation system opening new perspectives in many research fields. Xenocs is a French instrument company formed as a spinout from the Laue Langevin Institute. The company provides solutions for nanomaterial characterisation using Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering technique...
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Goettingen, Germany, adopted massive parallelisation techniques to create 116,000 simultaneous scanning points and super-resolve 120 µm × 100 µm fields in less than a second. The research was led by Professor Stefan Hell, who first advanced STED (Stimulated Emission Depletion) and RESOLFT (Reversible Saturable/Switchable Optical Fluorescence Transitions) far-field, super-resolution microscopy...
Dr Childérick Severac manages the Bionanotechnologies Platform at ITAV (Institut des Technologies Avancées en science du Vivant) on the site of the new Oncopole campus dedicated to cancer research. His research activities may be divided into two parts: his own research and the research activity he does for others in the form of providing a collaborative imaging service. Dr Severac's research focuses on the development of...
At the annual Neuroscience meeting in Washington, D.C., November 15-19, 2014, ZEISS will present ZEISS MultiSEM 505, its new scanning electron microscope (SEM). As the first SEM in the world, the system features 61 beams working in parallel, and offers an unrivaled capture speed of 1220 megapixels per second at a pixel size of 4 nm. This high acquisition speed is used for imaging neural tissue in brain research where it is now possible to observe much bigger...
What makes the new T:Genius outperform other commercial imagers is the amazing ability to quickly and easily access stunning quality images anywhere from a tablet, computer or smartphone. Using the T:Genius’ clever ‘StatusLink’ feature researchers can stay updated and even share image results with colleagues in other labs, no matter whether they are down the hall or in another country. This is a great time saver when, for instance, scientists are...
It is designed to meet the toughest contamination requirements from the semiconductor capital equipment industry. The revolutionary low plasma potential discharge technique greatly reduces the risk of ion sputtering damage. Together with a proprietary two-stage filter gas delivery system, SEMI-KLEEN plasma cleaner has been proven capable of meeting particle contamination requirement for sub 10nm nodes....
HORIBA Scientific, a leading innovator in the manufacture of high performance scientific and analytical equipment, is announcing the release of its new MultiWell module for the acclaimed LabSpec 6 Spectroscopy Suite. The module transforms the HORIBA portfolio of Raman microscopes into efficient high throughput chemical analyzers, coupling the non-destructive chemically rich analysis with high sample turn around and fast return on...
It is being used to study DNA and DNA nanostructures. Dr Philip Tinnefeld is Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at the Technische Universität Braunschweig where he runs a laboratory which specialises in the field of NanoBioScience. His group has pioneered the integration of DNA origami with optical single-molecule spectroscopy over the last few years. In this context, they have demonstrated some of the early applications where the breakthroughs of...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its first research grants through President Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative, including three awards to the University of California, Berkeley, totaling nearly $7.5 million over three years. In addition, a $12 million public-private collaboration between ZEISS and UC Berkeley to support the Berkeley Brain Microscopy Innovation Center (BrainMIC) was made public. The US Brain initiative is focused on advancing tool development in...