HORIBA UK Limited will introduce a new network licence option for its QSP 2.0 (Quality Slide Program) affordable digital tool for skill evaluation and training in morphology at IBMS Congress 2022. This now enables up to 50 users across various locations, even in different countries, to directly access this valuable digital morphology resource as it works on VPN and local networks. The new QSP 2.0 Network Licence is ideal for large hospital Trusts with multiple sites and users, or Universities/Medical Schools for remote teaching...
Leica Microsystems, a leader in microscopy and scientific instrumentation and a Life Sciences company of Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR), has launched Mica, the world’s first Microhub. A Microhub is a new type of wholly integrated imaging solution that leverages machine learning software, automation tools and unique fluorescence unmixing techniques to automate the imaging workflow for researchers, regardless of their microscopy experience levels...
OxDX, a University of Oxford spin out building instant pathogen tests using super-resolution microscopy and machine learning,has raised £2.6m in pre-seed funding for its AI powered diagnostic technology that can recognise and identify specific species and strains of viruses1,2, bacteria and other pathogens within a sample in seconds. The initial funding is co-led by IQ Capital and Ahren Innovation Capital with participation from Science Creates Ventures, and will be used to expand the team and further validate the technology with development partners...
Dyad Medical, Inc., the developer of the cloud-based AI technology for cardiac image analysis called LibbyTM, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared LibbyTM IAAA through the 510(k) pathway. LibbyTM IAAA offers image analysis used for viewing and quantifying Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography (IVOCT) images.
Biotium, a supplier of cutting-edge life science reagents, is expanding their line of industry-leading Mix-n-Stain™ labeling kits with new kits designed specifically for producing antibody conjugates ideal for super-resolution stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM). Mix-n-Stain™ STORM CF® Dye Antibody Labeling Kits are available with Biotium’s unique STORM CF® Dyes, which feature exceptional brightness and photochemical properties ideal for STORM imaging...
ZEISS recently caught up with the team from the Mostowy Lab at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. Watch the video below to hear how their ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 has transformed the way they carry out research across the entire lab - from streamlining workflows to standardising results. ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 is your automated microscope for live cell imaging, combining the ease-of-use of an automated high-end imaging system with the image quality and flexibility of a classic inverted research microscope...
Linkam Scientific Instruments, expert in sample characterisation, has launched the latest update to its range of humidity control systems. The new RHGen Relative Humidity (RH) Controller offers humidity control between 3% and 95% RH, at temperatures from ambient to 85°C, with an upgraded RH sensor and improved connectors, providing environmental control to a variety of Linkam temperature control stages and third-party chambers...
In December 2021, ZEISS entered a strategic partnership with the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (KIR) and the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine (IDRM), developing the Oxford-ZEISS Centre of Excellence (Oxford-ZCoE). The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (KIR) is a world-leading medical research centre where discovery research drives development of transformative therapies for chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease....
French CRO kicks off new growth phase by boosting research capacity, with plans to use site to set up therapeutic innovation campus, including center for cryo-electron microscopy. NovAliX, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) specializing in drug research and development, today announces the first stage in its development project that will allow it to offer clients a more complete, high-quality portfolio with enhanced biological and pharmacological services...
Designed to support PhoreMost’s phenotypic screening requirements and expertise, the new bespoke 14,900 sq ft state-of-the-art facility is split equally between office and laboratory space, with an additional 4,000 sq ft of warehouse storage. The space, within The Works, Unity Campus’ latest combined office and R&D building, enables the Company to add in-house flow cytometry and imaging capabilities....
Teledyne FLIR introduces two families of X-Series science cameras, the X858x and X698x, offering high-speed and high-resolution thermal imaging capabilities for scientific research and engineering applications within the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long-wave infrared (LWIR) spectrum. The X858x and X698x cameras offer advanced recording, triggering, and synchronization capabilities....
Deeper Insights into Material Properties with the In situ Lab for ZEISS Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopes. ZEISS is introducing its new integrated in situ workflow for ZEISS field emission scanning electron microscopes (FE-SEM). When researchers need to link material performance to microstructure, which is essential for developing novel materials in a highly efficient way, they can now extend their ZEISS FE-SEM with an in situ solution for heating and tensile experiments...
The UC Berkeley study, published in collaboration with Biotium, offers a breakthrough chemical strategy for designing new fluorescent dyes optimized for STORM super-resolution microscopy. Biotium, a leading life science reagent supplier and producer of innovative dyes, has collaborated with Professor Ke Xu at University of California, Berkeley to generate a strategy for improving the photoswitching behavior of rhodamine dyes for optimal (d)STORM [(direct) stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy] performance...
JEOL, the global leader in the development of cutting-edge Electron Microscopes for materials characterization and analysis, introduces its latest SEM, the JSM-IT510. This new Scanning Electron Microscope features productivity enhancing automation, including “Simple SEM” automated imaging, automated montaging (both image and EDS map) and live EDS analysis (spectrum and map)...
Indica Labs, a leading provider of computational pathology software and services, is proud to announce that following ISO13485 certification, HALO AP® has received a CE Mark for use in primary diagnosis within the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK. The HALO AP platform was developed by Indica Labs to address the specific needs of anatomic pathology labs by supporting a wide range of tissue-based workflows...
ZEISS introduces two new software functionalities: With ZEISS LSM Plus and ZEISS Airyscan Joint Deconvolution, users achieve better results in confocal microscopy. Laser scanning microscopes (LSMs) are the multifunctional high-end microscopes in every imaging facility, valued as much for their instant, high-quality imaging of optical sections as for their ease of use and application flexibility...
The scanR high-content screening (HCS) station provides fully automated image acquisition and data analysis. Version 3.3 improves the deep-learning technology’s capabilities to reliably separate objects in biological samples using instance segmentation, the ability to detect and delineate distinct objects of interest in an image. Using a self-learning microscopy approach, the scanR system’s AI automatically analyzes data in an assay-based workflow. The deep-learning technology can detect cells, nuclei and subcellular objects...
Vision Engineering Limited has announced the launch of it first 4K resolution digital microscope, Makrolite 4K. Makrolite 4K’s superb image quality, 4K resolution and wide dynamic range is suitable for a wide range of complex and high contrast applications. It’s provides more fine detail with greater detail shadow and highlight areas, ideal for challenging inspection routines, including reflective subjects...
A diffraction grating is used to separate polychromatic light into its constituent wavelengths. In a Raman spectrometer diffraction gratings are used to separate the constituent wavelengths of the collected Raman scatter onto different pixels of the CCD camera for detection. All Raman spectrometers will require at least one diffraction grating and will frequently be configured to contain more than one to allow the user optimum grating selection for their samples and excitation wavelength(s).
As key partners of the prestigious Imperial College London in the field of optical imaging and its use, Leica helps Imperial drive forward research and innovation through the next generation of biomedical engineering research. Both Imperial campuses in South Kensington and White City are equipped with cutting-edge imaging solutions from Leica Microsystems, such as THUNDER imaging systems and STELLARIS confocal microscope systems...
Beckman Coulter has announced the European launch of the DxU Iris Workcell, a fully-automated system that streamlines urinalysis workflow and reduces manual microscopy. A routine urinalysis is one of the most frequently-ordered tests, representing up to 30% of all samples received in the lab. Many of these samples require a lab technician to perform manual inspection, resulting in workflow disruption and increase in workload...
Genoskin, a biotechnology company that leverages live ex vivo human skin to test therapeutic and non-therapeutic products, announces the launch of MANTIS®, a new spatial biology imaging platform dedicated to skin immunology. This new offer was developed by Dr. Nicolas Gaudenzio and his team at Inserm. Dr. Gaudenzio was recently appointed CSO (Chief Scientific Officer) at Genoskin....
HORIBA UK Limited will introduce a new network licence option for its QSP 2.0 (Quality Slide Program) affordable digital tool for skill evaluation and training in morphology at IBMS Congress 2022. This now enables up to 50 users across various locations, even in different countries, to directly access this valuable digital morphology resource as it works on VPN and local networks. The new QSP 2.0 Network Licence is ideal for large hospital Trusts with multiple sites and users, or Universities/Medical Schools for remote teaching...
Leica Microsystems, a leader in microscopy and scientific instrumentation and a Life Sciences company of Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR), has launched Mica, the world’s first Microhub. A Microhub is a new type of wholly integrated imaging solution that leverages machine learning software, automation tools and unique fluorescence unmixing techniques to automate the imaging workflow for researchers, regardless of their microscopy experience levels...
OxDX, a University of Oxford spin out building instant pathogen tests using super-resolution microscopy and machine learning,has raised £2.6m in pre-seed funding for its AI powered diagnostic technology that can recognise and identify specific species and strains of viruses1,2, bacteria and other pathogens within a sample in seconds. The initial funding is co-led by IQ Capital and Ahren Innovation Capital with participation from Science Creates Ventures, and will be used to expand the team and further validate the technology with development partners...
Dyad Medical, Inc., the developer of the cloud-based AI technology for cardiac image analysis called LibbyTM, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared LibbyTM IAAA through the 510(k) pathway. LibbyTM IAAA offers image analysis used for viewing and quantifying Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography (IVOCT) images.
Biotium, a supplier of cutting-edge life science reagents, is expanding their line of industry-leading Mix-n-Stain™ labeling kits with new kits designed specifically for producing antibody conjugates ideal for super-resolution stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM). Mix-n-Stain™ STORM CF® Dye Antibody Labeling Kits are available with Biotium’s unique STORM CF® Dyes, which feature exceptional brightness and photochemical properties ideal for STORM imaging...
ZEISS recently caught up with the team from the Mostowy Lab at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. Watch the video below to hear how their ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 has transformed the way they carry out research across the entire lab - from streamlining workflows to standardising results. ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 is your automated microscope for live cell imaging, combining the ease-of-use of an automated high-end imaging system with the image quality and flexibility of a classic inverted research microscope...
Linkam Scientific Instruments, expert in sample characterisation, has launched the latest update to its range of humidity control systems. The new RHGen Relative Humidity (RH) Controller offers humidity control between 3% and 95% RH, at temperatures from ambient to 85°C, with an upgraded RH sensor and improved connectors, providing environmental control to a variety of Linkam temperature control stages and third-party chambers...
In December 2021, ZEISS entered a strategic partnership with the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (KIR) and the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine (IDRM), developing the Oxford-ZEISS Centre of Excellence (Oxford-ZCoE). The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (KIR) is a world-leading medical research centre where discovery research drives development of transformative therapies for chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease....
French CRO kicks off new growth phase by boosting research capacity, with plans to use site to set up therapeutic innovation campus, including center for cryo-electron microscopy. NovAliX, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) specializing in drug research and development, today announces the first stage in its development project that will allow it to offer clients a more complete, high-quality portfolio with enhanced biological and pharmacological services...
Designed to support PhoreMost’s phenotypic screening requirements and expertise, the new bespoke 14,900 sq ft state-of-the-art facility is split equally between office and laboratory space, with an additional 4,000 sq ft of warehouse storage. The space, within The Works, Unity Campus’ latest combined office and R&D building, enables the Company to add in-house flow cytometry and imaging capabilities....
Teledyne FLIR introduces two families of X-Series science cameras, the X858x and X698x, offering high-speed and high-resolution thermal imaging capabilities for scientific research and engineering applications within the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long-wave infrared (LWIR) spectrum. The X858x and X698x cameras offer advanced recording, triggering, and synchronization capabilities....
Deeper Insights into Material Properties with the In situ Lab for ZEISS Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopes. ZEISS is introducing its new integrated in situ workflow for ZEISS field emission scanning electron microscopes (FE-SEM). When researchers need to link material performance to microstructure, which is essential for developing novel materials in a highly efficient way, they can now extend their ZEISS FE-SEM with an in situ solution for heating and tensile experiments...
The UC Berkeley study, published in collaboration with Biotium, offers a breakthrough chemical strategy for designing new fluorescent dyes optimized for STORM super-resolution microscopy. Biotium, a leading life science reagent supplier and producer of innovative dyes, has collaborated with Professor Ke Xu at University of California, Berkeley to generate a strategy for improving the photoswitching behavior of rhodamine dyes for optimal (d)STORM [(direct) stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy] performance...
JEOL, the global leader in the development of cutting-edge Electron Microscopes for materials characterization and analysis, introduces its latest SEM, the JSM-IT510. This new Scanning Electron Microscope features productivity enhancing automation, including “Simple SEM” automated imaging, automated montaging (both image and EDS map) and live EDS analysis (spectrum and map)...
Indica Labs, a leading provider of computational pathology software and services, is proud to announce that following ISO13485 certification, HALO AP® has received a CE Mark for use in primary diagnosis within the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK. The HALO AP platform was developed by Indica Labs to address the specific needs of anatomic pathology labs by supporting a wide range of tissue-based workflows...
ZEISS introduces two new software functionalities: With ZEISS LSM Plus and ZEISS Airyscan Joint Deconvolution, users achieve better results in confocal microscopy. Laser scanning microscopes (LSMs) are the multifunctional high-end microscopes in every imaging facility, valued as much for their instant, high-quality imaging of optical sections as for their ease of use and application flexibility...
The scanR high-content screening (HCS) station provides fully automated image acquisition and data analysis. Version 3.3 improves the deep-learning technology’s capabilities to reliably separate objects in biological samples using instance segmentation, the ability to detect and delineate distinct objects of interest in an image. Using a self-learning microscopy approach, the scanR system’s AI automatically analyzes data in an assay-based workflow. The deep-learning technology can detect cells, nuclei and subcellular objects...
Vision Engineering Limited has announced the launch of it first 4K resolution digital microscope, Makrolite 4K. Makrolite 4K’s superb image quality, 4K resolution and wide dynamic range is suitable for a wide range of complex and high contrast applications. It’s provides more fine detail with greater detail shadow and highlight areas, ideal for challenging inspection routines, including reflective subjects...
A diffraction grating is used to separate polychromatic light into its constituent wavelengths. In a Raman spectrometer diffraction gratings are used to separate the constituent wavelengths of the collected Raman scatter onto different pixels of the CCD camera for detection. All Raman spectrometers will require at least one diffraction grating and will frequently be configured to contain more than one to allow the user optimum grating selection for their samples and excitation wavelength(s).
As key partners of the prestigious Imperial College London in the field of optical imaging and its use, Leica helps Imperial drive forward research and innovation through the next generation of biomedical engineering research. Both Imperial campuses in South Kensington and White City are equipped with cutting-edge imaging solutions from Leica Microsystems, such as THUNDER imaging systems and STELLARIS confocal microscope systems... 
Beckman Coulter has announced the European launch of the DxU Iris Workcell, a fully-automated system that streamlines urinalysis workflow and reduces manual microscopy. A routine urinalysis is one of the most frequently-ordered tests, representing up to 30% of all samples received in the lab. Many of these samples require a lab technician to perform manual inspection, resulting in workflow disruption and increase in workload...
Genoskin, a biotechnology company that leverages live ex vivo human skin to test therapeutic and non-therapeutic products, announces the launch of MANTIS®, a new spatial biology imaging platform dedicated to skin immunology. This new offer was developed by Dr. Nicolas Gaudenzio and his team at Inserm. Dr. Gaudenzio was recently appointed CSO (Chief Scientific Officer) at Genoskin....