Newcastle University Imaging Facility enhances advanced imaging capabilitiesJan 18, 2012Working with Nikon Instruments UK, the Imaging Facility at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University has enhanced its advanced imaging capability. The University has added to its existing imaging resources; two A1R confocal imaging systems, a Total Internal Reflectance (TIRF) microscopy system and a Super Resolution microscopy systems equipped to provide both N-STORM* (Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy) and N-SIM** (Structured Illumination Microscopy). The facility caters for a wide variety of imaging requirements and can offer phase, DIC, fluorescence and confocal microscopy, and now super resolution...
Read MoreLeica SR GSD ranks among Top Ten Innovations 2011Jan 17, 2012The Top Ten Innovations Contest, established by the magazine The Scientist, awards the "coolest life science tools to emerge in the previous year". This year, the Leica SR GSD microscopy system for widefield super-resolution ranks among the list of new and exciting technologies that made their way into the labs...
Read MoreFirst Carl Zeiss App LaunchedJan 17, 2012Light Lab, the first accompanying app for ZEN 2011 imaging software from Carl Zeiss, is now available for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Light Lab supplements the ZEN 2011 controlling and image processing software functions within the experimental lab workflow. The app supports the configuration of fluorescence experiments in both confocal and light microscopy. The user can also access all product brochures, social media channels and microscopy activities of Carl Zeiss. Light Lab utilizes information on the current location and notifies the user of the closest contact person for Support and Service...
Read MoreFLIR Introduces ResearchIR SoftwareJan 17, 2012FLIR Systems has announced the introduction of FLIR ResearchIR Software to enable R&D and Science professionals using thermal imaging systems to work more efficiently and productively. Drawing upon FLIR's extensive experience of thermal imaging cameras and applications - ResearchIR enables users to get the most out of their thermal imaging camera providing facility for high speed recording and advanced thermal pattern analysis. ResearchIR is the perfect tool for industrial R&D...
Read MoreNon-Intrusive Verification of Spent Nuclear FuelJan 17, 2012Channel Systems Inc. has placed an order with Resolve Optics Ltd to supply a new lightweight version of the 80-200mm focal length UV Zoom lens developed for use with their Digital Cerenkov Viewing Device (DCVD). Spent nuclear fuel emits a faint ultraviolet Cerenkov light when gamma rays from fuel assemblies interact with electrons in the cooling pond water. The DCVD equipped with UV Zoom lens provides a highly-effective system that captures the Cerenkov image of spent fuel for analysis and comparison...
Read MoreOlympus releases the new CX22 series of microscopes for use in educational and routine microscopyJan 13, 2012Olympus has today released the new CX22 microscopes for routine and educational microscopy. Building on the success of the CX21 series of microscopes, the CX22 series feature significant improvements for convenient microscopic observations. Without compromising on image quality, these microscopes provide a bigger field of view and increased flexibility when it comes to altering the height of the eye point. The quick and easy setting of different viewing heights makes this microscope series perfect for use in an educational setting where users are changing frequently...
Read MoreA new microscope class with a bright futureJan 12, 2012With the Axio Zoom.V16, Carl Zeiss is defining a new instrument class in microscopy. For the first time, zoom microscopes are now combining typical benefits of stereomicroscopes such as zoom optics and long working distances with the higher resolutions of traditional light microscopes. In comparable image fields, the Axio Zoom.V16 offers a 2.5 times higher resolution and ten times brighter fluorescence than stereomicroscopes...
Read MoreLook deep into your samples, without the need for sectioningJan 3, 2012Olympus has released the new XLPLN25XSVMP SCALEVIEW 25x objective lens (NA 1.0) for the deep imaging of thick biological samples. The revolutionary SCALEVIEW approach was developed in collaboration with the RIKEN Brain Institute in Japan, where it allowed researchers to create highly accurate 3D structural representations of brain tissue. Until now, the use of such samples has been limited by the effects of tissue opacity and light scattering. To counter this, the new objective has a super-long-working-distance of 4mm and works alongside Olympus's new SCALEVEW-A2 clearing agent, which renders samples nearly translucent while preserving fluorescent signals...
Read More3D Imagery to Improve Surgical Visualisation of Liver CancerDec 16, 2011Holoxica, an Edinburgh-based 3D holographic imaging company, has furthered the boundaries of biomedical imaging by creating the world's first 3D, full colour hologram of a human liver, paving the way for a breakthrough in the way surgeons plan liver operations to remove tumours... Read MoreDolomite launches novel microfluidic device for advanced cell immobilization and observationDec 12, 2011In collaboration with The Gurdon Institute (University of Cambridge), Dolomite, a world leader in the design and manufacture of microfluidic solutions, has introduced the Embryo Immobilisation Chip ideal for the immobilization and observation of embryos or cell aggregates of up to 150µm in diameter...
Read MoreJPK launches QI Dec 8, 2011JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announce exciting new quantitative imaging capabilities for the recently launched NanoWizard®3 AFM system. QI™ is the new quantitative imaging mode from JPK. It has been developed to make AFM imaging easier than ever before. With QI™, a force curve-based imaging mode, the user has the full control over the tip-sample force at every pixel of the image. There is no need for setpoint or gain...
Read MoreLinkam temperature controlled stage used to crystallisation processes in opto-electronic thin films at the UniversitDec 8, 2011Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, report on the work of Professor Yves Henri Geerts from the Université Libre de Bruxelles where he uses a specially designed temperature stage to study crystallisation processes in opto-electronic thin films...
Read MoreLeica Microsystems Launches the First Fully Automated One-step Dual Chromogen IHC Detection System for Use With Antibody CocktailsDec 8, 2011Leica Microsystems announced today the availability of Leica ChromoPlexTM 1 Dual Detection for BOND, the first fully automated one-step detection system allowing the co-visualization of mouse and rabbit antibodies on a single slide. Same day diagnosis is now easier to achieve when compared with the two-step sequential or semi-automated processes currently available on competitive IHC advanced stainers. Developed for use with commercial and self-validated cocktails, ChromoPlex delivers the intense staining and clear background that BOND users currently enjoy from Leica's Compact Polymer technology...
Read MoreEPI Fluorescence Microscope Features Led LightingDec 8, 2011The established range of MAGNUM trinocular microscopes for epi-fluorescence has been expanded following the introduction of a new model which features an LED light source, as opposed to the traditional mercury HBO bulb. Available from laboratory equipment specialists MEDLINE SCIENTIFIC this new LED light source option ensures instant ‘power-up’ and ‘switch-off’ without the need for a cooling down period between fluorescence viewing sessions. Also, the lifespan of the LED bulb is significantly increased from that of a standard HBO bulb, from 300 hours to around 30,000 hours...
Read MoreNobel Prize Winner to Speak at European Microscopy CongressDec 6, 2011Professor Daniel Shechtman has been confirmed as a Plenary Speaker at the 15th European Microscopy Congress (emc2012) in Manchester in September 2012. Professor Shechtman was awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of "quasicrystals" which showed that the atoms in a crystal could be packed in an unrepeatable pattern. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that the discovery in 1982 was initially "extremely controversial," but that it had "fundamentally changed the way chemists look at solid matter"...
Read MoreNew AFM platform from Anasys for analytical measurementsDec 5, 2011Anasys Instruments, the company that pioneered nanoscale thermal analysis and nanoscale IR spectroscopy using an AFM, has chosen the Fall 2011 MRS meeting to introduce a brand new, easy-to-use research and analysis tool. The afm+ is the first fully integrated AFM platform to offer three important analytical capabilities...
Read MoreOlympus releases the multi-purpose DP73 and DP73WDR digital cameras for brightfield and fluorescence microscopyDec 5, 2011Olympus has today released the new ultra resolution DP73 and DP73WDR digital cameras, for quality without compromise in brightfield and fluorescence imaging. The new multi-purpose cameras leverage Olympus's expertise in pixel shift sensors and high-end consumer DSLR camera design to generate extremely detailed and accurately coloured images. This is achieved using the company's new ‘3CCD mode' and ‘Fine Detail Process' technologies. In addition, the DP73WDR employs the Olympus WiDER (Wide Dynamic Range) technology to ensure that each specific image area is always optimally exposed, regardless of any differences in intensity...
Read MoreDouble and Jumbo Slide Scanning on the Leica SCN400Dec 1, 2011The largest capture area of any line scanner in digital pathology is now possible with the Leica SCN400 and SCN400 F. The latest release in Leica's Total Digital Pathology portfolio enables the digitization of very large specimens, not possible with any other line scanning digital pathology system...
Read MoreCarl Zeiss Opens New Chapter in MicroscopyNov 29, 2011New Microscopy business group is launched – "The world's only one-stop shop for light and electron microscopy" The start of the new 2011/12 fiscal year also marked the launch of Carl Zeiss Microscopy. 2,500 employees of MicroImaging und Nano Technology Systems now form the new business group in the Carl Zeiss Group. In the future the company will be the world's only supplier to offer one-stop, innovative systems and solutions for light and electron microscopy...
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Names Winner of 2012 Winter Conference Award in Plasma SpectrochemistryNov 29, 2011Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the winner of the 2012 Winter Conference Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry, Dr. J. Sabine Becker, head of Trace and UltraTrace Analysis, Central Division of Analytical Chemistry at the Research Center Juelich, Germany. The award, which honors scientists who have made the most noteworthy contributions to the field of plasma spectrochemistry, is sponsored by Thermo Fisher. Thermo Fisher will present the award and a check for $5,000 to Dr. Becker during the 2012 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry to be held in Tucson, Ariz. January 9-14, 2012...
Read MoreMalvern Instruments scientist receives Ernst Abbe Memorial Award at 50th anniversary of the Eastern Analytical SymposiumNov 23, 2011Dr E. Neil Lewis, Chief Technology Officer at Malvern Instruments can now count the prestigious Ernst Abbe Memorial Award of the New York Microscopical Society among his accolades. He received the award, presented in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the science of microscopy, on 17 November 2011 during the 50th Eastern Analytical Symposium & Exposition in New Jersey, and he joins a list of previous recipients who have made significant contributions to the field. Dr. Lewis is being recognized specifically for the development of chemical imaging microscopy...
Read MoreImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Selects Leica Microsystems to Provide Automated IHC platforms Across all SitesNov 18, 2011Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has one of the largest immunohistochemistry / in situ hybridization (IHC / ISH) workloads in the United Kingdom, performing almost 120,000 IHC slides a year. The Trust has selected Leica Microsystems' BOND platform to provide advanced IHC and ISH staining capabilities for cellular pathology services at its Hammersmith, Charing Cross and St Mary's Hospital sites. These hospitals are integrated with the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, rated in 2011 as a top 10 global university by Times Higher Education in conjunction with Thomson Reuters...
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Working with Nikon Instruments UK, the Imaging Facility at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University has enhanced its advanced imaging capability. The University has added to its existing imaging resources; two A1R confocal imaging systems, a Total Internal Reflectance (TIRF) microscopy system and a Super Resolution microscopy systems equipped to provide both N-STORM* (Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy) and N-SIM** (Structured Illumination Microscopy). The facility caters for a wide variety of imaging requirements and can offer phase, DIC, fluorescence and confocal microscopy, and now super resolution...
The Top Ten Innovations Contest, established by the magazine The Scientist, awards the "coolest life science tools to emerge in the previous year". This year, the Leica SR GSD microscopy system for widefield super-resolution ranks among the list of new and exciting technologies that made their way into the labs...
Light Lab, the first accompanying app for ZEN 2011 imaging software from Carl Zeiss, is now available for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Light Lab supplements the ZEN 2011 controlling and image processing software functions within the experimental lab workflow. The app supports the configuration of fluorescence experiments in both confocal and light microscopy. The user can also access all product brochures, social media channels and microscopy activities of Carl Zeiss. Light Lab utilizes information on the current location and notifies the user of the closest contact person for Support and Service...
FLIR Systems has announced the introduction of FLIR ResearchIR Software to enable R&D and Science professionals using thermal imaging systems to work more efficiently and productively. Drawing upon FLIR's extensive experience of thermal imaging cameras and applications - ResearchIR enables users to get the most out of their thermal imaging camera providing facility for high speed recording and advanced thermal pattern analysis. ResearchIR is the perfect tool for industrial R&D...
Channel Systems Inc. has placed an order with Resolve Optics Ltd to supply a new lightweight version of the 80-200mm focal length UV Zoom lens developed for use with their Digital Cerenkov Viewing Device (DCVD). Spent nuclear fuel emits a faint ultraviolet Cerenkov light when gamma rays from fuel assemblies interact with electrons in the cooling pond water. The DCVD equipped with UV Zoom lens provides a highly-effective system that captures the Cerenkov image of spent fuel for analysis and comparison...
Olympus has today released the new CX22 microscopes for routine and educational microscopy. Building on the success of the CX21 series of microscopes, the CX22 series feature significant improvements for convenient microscopic observations. Without compromising on image quality, these microscopes provide a bigger field of view and increased flexibility when it comes to altering the height of the eye point. The quick and easy setting of different viewing heights makes this microscope series perfect for use in an educational setting where users are changing frequently...
With the Axio Zoom.V16, Carl Zeiss is defining a new instrument class in microscopy. For the first time, zoom microscopes are now combining typical benefits of stereomicroscopes such as zoom optics and long working distances with the higher resolutions of traditional light microscopes. In comparable image fields, the Axio Zoom.V16 offers a 2.5 times higher resolution and ten times brighter fluorescence than stereomicroscopes...
Olympus has released the new XLPLN25XSVMP SCALEVIEW 25x objective lens (NA 1.0) for the deep imaging of thick biological samples. The revolutionary SCALEVIEW approach was developed in collaboration with the RIKEN Brain Institute in Japan, where it allowed researchers to create highly accurate 3D structural representations of brain tissue. Until now, the use of such samples has been limited by the effects of tissue opacity and light scattering. To counter this, the new objective has a super-long-working-distance of 4mm and works alongside Olympus's new SCALEVEW-A2 clearing agent, which renders samples nearly translucent while preserving fluorescent signals...
Holoxica, an Edinburgh-based 3D holographic imaging company, has furthered the boundaries of biomedical imaging by creating the world's first 3D, full colour hologram of a human liver, paving the way for a breakthrough in the way surgeons plan liver operations to remove tumours...
In collaboration with The Gurdon Institute (University of Cambridge), Dolomite, a world leader in the design and manufacture of microfluidic solutions, has introduced the Embryo Immobilisation Chip ideal for the immobilization and observation of embryos or cell aggregates of up to 150µm in diameter...
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announce exciting new quantitative imaging capabilities for the recently launched NanoWizard®3 AFM system. QI™ is the new quantitative imaging mode from JPK. It has been developed to make AFM imaging easier than ever before. With QI™, a force curve-based imaging mode, the user has the full control over the tip-sample force at every pixel of the image. There is no need for setpoint or gain...
Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, report on the work of Professor Yves Henri Geerts from the Université Libre de Bruxelles where he uses a specially designed temperature stage to study crystallisation processes in opto-electronic thin films...
Leica Microsystems announced today the availability of Leica ChromoPlexTM 1 Dual Detection for BOND, the first fully automated one-step detection system allowing the co-visualization of mouse and rabbit antibodies on a single slide. Same day diagnosis is now easier to achieve when compared with the two-step sequential or semi-automated processes currently available on competitive IHC advanced stainers. Developed for use with commercial and self-validated cocktails, ChromoPlex delivers the intense staining and clear background that BOND users currently enjoy from Leica's Compact Polymer technology...
The established range of MAGNUM trinocular microscopes for epi-fluorescence has been expanded following the introduction of a new model which features an LED light source, as opposed to the traditional mercury HBO bulb. Available from laboratory equipment specialists MEDLINE SCIENTIFIC this new LED light source option ensures instant ‘power-up’ and ‘switch-off’ without the need for a cooling down period between fluorescence viewing sessions. Also, the lifespan of the LED bulb is significantly increased from that of a standard HBO bulb, from 300 hours to around 30,000 hours...
Professor Daniel Shechtman has been confirmed as a Plenary Speaker at the 15th European Microscopy Congress (emc2012) in Manchester in September 2012. Professor Shechtman was awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of "quasicrystals" which showed that the atoms in a crystal could be packed in an unrepeatable pattern. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that the discovery in 1982 was initially "extremely controversial," but that it had "fundamentally changed the way chemists look at solid matter"...
Anasys Instruments, the company that pioneered nanoscale thermal analysis and nanoscale IR spectroscopy using an AFM, has chosen the Fall 2011 MRS meeting to introduce a brand new, easy-to-use research and analysis tool. The afm+ is the first fully integrated AFM platform to offer three important analytical capabilities...
Olympus has today released the new ultra resolution DP73 and DP73WDR digital cameras, for quality without compromise in brightfield and fluorescence imaging. The new multi-purpose cameras leverage Olympus's expertise in pixel shift sensors and high-end consumer DSLR camera design to generate extremely detailed and accurately coloured images. This is achieved using the company's new ‘3CCD mode' and ‘Fine Detail Process' technologies. In addition, the DP73WDR employs the Olympus WiDER (Wide Dynamic Range) technology to ensure that each specific image area is always optimally exposed, regardless of any differences in intensity...
The largest capture area of any line scanner in digital pathology is now possible with the Leica SCN400 and SCN400 F. The latest release in Leica's Total Digital Pathology portfolio enables the digitization of very large specimens, not possible with any other line scanning digital pathology system...
New Microscopy business group is launched – "The world's only one-stop shop for light and electron microscopy" The start of the new 2011/12 fiscal year also marked the launch of Carl Zeiss Microscopy. 2,500 employees of MicroImaging und Nano Technology Systems now form the new business group in the Carl Zeiss Group. In the future the company will be the world's only supplier to offer one-stop, innovative systems and solutions for light and electron microscopy...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the winner of the 2012 Winter Conference Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry, Dr. J. Sabine Becker, head of Trace and UltraTrace Analysis, Central Division of Analytical Chemistry at the Research Center Juelich, Germany. The award, which honors scientists who have made the most noteworthy contributions to the field of plasma spectrochemistry, is sponsored by Thermo Fisher. Thermo Fisher will present the award and a check for $5,000 to Dr. Becker during the 2012 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry to be held in Tucson, Ariz. January 9-14, 2012...
Dr E. Neil Lewis, Chief Technology Officer at Malvern Instruments can now count the prestigious Ernst Abbe Memorial Award of the New York Microscopical Society among his accolades. He received the award, presented in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the science of microscopy, on 17 November 2011 during the 50th Eastern Analytical Symposium & Exposition in New Jersey, and he joins a list of previous recipients who have made significant contributions to the field. Dr. Lewis is being recognized specifically for the development of chemical imaging microscopy...
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has one of the largest immunohistochemistry / in situ hybridization (IHC / ISH) workloads in the United Kingdom, performing almost 120,000 IHC slides a year. The Trust has selected Leica Microsystems' BOND platform to provide advanced IHC and ISH staining capabilities for cellular pathology services at its Hammersmith, Charing Cross and St Mary's Hospital sites. These hospitals are integrated with the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, rated in 2011 as a top 10 global university by Times Higher Education in conjunction with Thomson Reuters...