Meet world’s first Mobile SEM - the Phenom desktop SEM. A fully integrated and accredited scanning electron microscope (SEM) with EDX to be used on every location for fast and accurate investigations and analysis.

The Phenom ProX is the ultimate all-in-one imaging and X-ray analysis system (EDX). With the Phenom ProX desktop SEM, sample structures can be physically examined and their elemental composition determined. Besides point analysis, the optional Elemental Mapping and Line Scan software allows further analysis of the distribution of elements....

Use of Picsara will provide a more streamlined and secure approach to the patient journey.

HCA International, providers of world class private hospital care, are to collaborate with Swedish-based medical imaging specialists Mawell to transform the delivery of frontline care, enhance their service to patients and improve clinical safety and security. Launching across all HCA International’s clinical UK sites early next year Picsara, a unique multidisciplinary imaging software solution, will enable medical staff across various specialities to capture, store, distribute, analyse, annotate and measure all non-radiology medical images and videos efficiently and securely to help...

Thanks to a novel software upgrade from Olympus, an optical resolution of up to 120 nm is now achieved in cell and tissue imaging.

With the new Olympus FV-OSR software, the FluoView FV1200 is transformed into a powerful system for confocal Super Resolution microscopy. Introducing a smart route to Super Resolution microscopy, the Olympus FV-OSR software module enables users of the FluoView FV1200 easy access to what was previously the domain of only specialised microscopy systems. The extra detail offered by Super Resolution technology facilitates researchers in...

Xmark Media the organisers of Photonex 2014, the UK’s showcase photonics conference & exhibition announce the programme and speakers for the meeting on Nano and Bio-Imaging.

This FREE-to-attend conference will be held on Wednesday 15^th October as part of a diverse two-day event at the visitor-friendly Ricoh Arena in Coventry. Applying photonics to a broad group of imaging techniques is providing greatly increased information particularly in the fields of medicine and the life sciences. With researchers continually looking for increased resolution with the addition of chemical information, this year’s conference provides a comprehensive overview of this rapidly expanding field....

Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, today announced its G:BOX Chemi XT4 is being used by scientists at the University of Edinburgh to accurately quantify DNA and proteins from bacteria engineered to produce metal nanoparticles.

This work is contributing to speeding up throughput of research on novel methods of processing toxic metals from contaminated soil. Researchers in the Horsfall Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland are using a G:BOX Chemi XT4 multi-application imager to analyse agarose gels of bacterial DNA stained with the green fluorescent dye SafeView™. They are also utilising the G:BOX Chemi XT4  to image SDS-PAGE gels and...

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 to Eric Betzig, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and German Cancer Research Center and William E. Moerner, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

“for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.

As Mastersizer 3000, the world-leading laser diffraction particle size analyzer, celebrates its 3^rd birthday, Malvern Instruments is delivering even smarter particle sizing with the launch of two new additions to the Mastersizer portfolio.

Join Malvern’s live web event on 9 October

HORIBA UK Ltd, Medical Division, has introduced the EasyCell^® assistant digital cell imaging system.

This affordable, high-throughput system can improve laboratory productivity by automatically scanning and locating up to 200 white blood cells on a smear slide and pre-classifying them on a display, grouped by cell type. Red blood cells and platelets are also displayed for morphology comments and platelet estimates provided to verify the Full Blood Count (FBC) result. The new system simplifies manual differentials by pre-classifying normal cells, enabling...

Microfluidics specialist Dolomite have launched the Meros TCU-100 at this year’s Lab-on-a-Chip & Microarray World Congress in San Diego

The first module in the new Meros range of plug-and-play microfluidic products, the compact TCU-100 offers advanced temperature control from 1 to 100°C for microfluidic chips, microscope slides and other third party devices. Just 11cm (4 ¼ inches) wide, the chemically resistant, robust and reliable TCU-100 combines ultimate ease of use and affordability for a wide range of biological and chemical applications, including cell analysis...

Optical Surfaces Ltd. are a leading international supplier of high precision toroidal mirrors (toroids) made to your exact specification.

Toroidal mirrors are normally used where a beam needs to be focused or folded. The design of toroidal mirrors eliminates astigmatism normally caused by concave spherical mirrors. Toroidal mirrors are widely used for correction of aberration in a range of applications served by spectroscopic instruments, monochromators and imaging devices that require pinpoint focusing. With workshops and test facilities deep underground where...

DELMIC develops and manufactures products which are focused on high performance, user friendly, integrated microscopy solutions.

In a collaborative development with electron microscope provider Phenom-World, both companies announce the launch of Delphi, the world’s first integrated correlative tabletop fluorescence and electron microscope at the 18^th IMC in Prague. DELMIC and Phenom-World announce Delphi™, the world’s first integrated correlative tabletop fluorescence and electron microscope. DELMIC produces high-performance, user-friendly integrated microscopy solutions while...

The Spectroline^® CC-80 and CC-81 ultraviolet viewing systems provide unequaled fluorescence analysis of research findings.

The CC-80 and CC-81 are ideal for use in chromatography, electrophoresis, genetic research, photoresist coating inspection, forensic science and much more. Researchers can custom design their own fluorescence analysis systems by choosing from a wide range of Spectroline UV lamps that are available in 254, 312 and 365nm wavelengths. For even higher UV intensity and greater fluorescent contrast, users can select from 29 Spectroline UV transilluminators...

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of the NanoTracker™ Optical Tweezers system in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics in the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University. 

Dr Rosalie Driessen is a post-doctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, a part of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University. She is studying the organization and dynamics of bacterial chromatin having received her doctorate from the University for her thesis entitled “The architects of crenarchaeal chromatin.”  Dr Driessen describes her research and talks about the “hows and whys” of choosing to...

Designed especially for the Phenom Desktop SEM PoroMetric Software for Fully Automated Measurement and Analysis of Pores

Now with independent O₂ and CO₂ control for live cell assays

The new Atmospheric Control Unit (ACU) allows independent, simultaneous control of both O₂ and CO₂ within the microplate reader chamber. Assays which can now be performed on the CLARIOstar range from standard cell growth assays to cytotoxicity assays. The ACU provides the optimal environment for any live cell-based assay.

ZEISS and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus have signed an exclusive license agreement for the commercialization of Bessel beam plane illumination microscopy, also called lattice light sheet microscopy.

Kibble-Zurek mechanism demonstrated in laboratory system with laser-cooled ion Coulomb crystals

The Andor iXon Ultra 897 EMCCD camera has been used by an international team of scientists to probe the nature of the symmetry-breaking phase transitions that began the process of creating our universe – the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. Most cosmological scientists agree that within less than a billionth of a second of the Big Bang, the young universe had to ‘decide’ which new state to adopt and, everywhere that individual areas could not...

Olympus launches its dedicated multiphoton excitation (MPE) objectives for deep imaging.

Designed to vastly accelerate data collection from live-cell and clarified samples with high-resolution imaging, the new lenses are the clear choice for MPE and light sheet applications. Dedicated to multiphoton excitation microscopy, Olympus introduces its XLPLN10XSVMP and XLSLPLN25XGMP objective lenses with an 8 mm working distance and support for a large range of refractive indices (RI). The objectives enable super-deep imaging of...

FLIR Systems proprietary 'superframing' technique has been developed to extend the effective scene brightness of a thermal image while maintaining its thermal contrast.

Although most thermal cameras can produce high-contrast images showing small temperature differences, they can only do so within a defined temperature range. However when extreme temperatures appear within a scene, the hottest parts of the image will be saturated and the coldest parts will appear black or noisy, resulting in a loss of image detail and invalid temperature measurements. This is a particular problem in...

New ultra-high quality gold nanoparticles simplify assay development and improve the sensitivity of immunoassays.

Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, announced today the commercial launch of InnovaGOLD, a new range of ultra-high quality gold nanoparticles that have demonstrated improved sensitivity, stability and reproducibility in immunoassays compared to other commercially available gold colloids. Gold nanoparticles are used in many applications such as lateral flow point-of-care assays, microscopy...

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announces their expansion into the US market with new distributors and the availability of the NanoWizard® AFM. 

JPK have been developing and supplying nanotechnology instrumentation for the materials & life sciences for more than twelve years. Having introduced their optical tweezers and force robotic measurement systems to the USA, JPK is now responding to requests to bring their AFM instrumentation to the USA. A new web site dedicated to the US market has been launched: www.usa.jpk.com.  The NanoWizard® is the core of...

Tooth decay is often revealed by an X-ray taken in the dentist’s chair.  

The image taken is relatively coarse and only reveals the presence of the problem, what it doesn’t show is detail about the mechanism that has led to the decay.  Understanding the processes that occur during tooth decay and indeed repair involves researchers looking at concentrations of minerals such as Calcium present in the structure.  X ray microtomography is now helping researchers at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) gain a deeper...