The Department of Sport and Exercise Science at Portsmouth University, UK reports on the advantages of using FLIR Systems thermal imaging cameras for measuring skin temperature at rest, during exercise, and recovery.
Skin temperature is an important physiological measure that can reflect the presence of illness and injury as well as provide insight into the localised interactions between the body and the environment. Historically, human skin temperature has been assessed using contact measurement devices....
HORIBA CLUE Series offer a scalable platform for imaging and spectroscopic analysis of nano-objects with SEM and dual SEM/FIB (Focused Ion Beam) microscopes.
HORIBA Scientific, global leader in spectroscopic analysis for over 40 years, is proud to announce the new HORIBA CLUE Series detectors for Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM). HORIBA CLUE Series include: i-CLUE fast Cathodo-Luminescence (CL) imaging system featuring a large field of view ellipsoidal collection mirror...
A Prior stage has been used in a ground-breaking study comparing traditional fluorescent tags to Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Nanoparticles (SERS NPs), which found there were significant differences between the two imaging methods.
Prior Scientific's H117 Motorized Precision Stage was used in a study comparing the characteristics of traditional fluorescent probes with SERS NPs, in which the two methods were used to fluorescently image both live and fixed cells. Interest in using SERS NPs rather than traditional fluorescent tags in biological imaging is growing....
Magritek reports how their 60 MHz benchtop NMR spectrometer is being used to teach undergraduate Biotechnology and Molecular Life Sciences students from Wageningen University about the practical use of NMR as part of the spectroscopic and chromatographic introductory course “Analytical Methods in Organic Chemistry”.
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is formed from the collaboration between Wageningen University and the Wageningen Research foundation. With the mission “to explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life,” its staff and students work in the domain of healthy foods and living environments....
Fast, High Performance Gel and Blot Imaging in One Compact System
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, today introduced the G:BOX mini, a compact, upgradable, multi-application system for all types of gel and Western blot imaging. Featuring a motorized stage, high performance camera and the option to add HI-LED lighting, this system is an ideal solution for laboratories....
Lonza has introduced the CytoSMART™ 2 System, an updated version of Lonza’s popular CytoSMART™ System for live cell imaging.
The CytoSMART™ 2 Device features an advanced optical system and more powerful camera unit, which enables researchers to capture higher-resolution images of their cell cultures. Images taken can be digitally enlarged two-fold to display more cellular detail for enhanced monitoring of cell cultures....
The UConn School of Engineering announced the launch of a new UConn-ZEISS Partnership with the opening of a new, state of the art laboratory, the Reverse Engineering, Fabrication, Inspection and Nondestructive Evaluation (REFINE) Lab.
The event was attended by many members of the ZEISS leadership team, including President of ZEISS North America, James Sharp. According to Sharp, working with a top research institution like UConn is part of the ZEISS tradition....
To advance their acclaimed oncology research, researchers at the Erasmus MC and Medical Delta in the Netherlands, have acquired a VECTor5OI/CT – the world’s only preclinical in-vivo imaging system with integrated morphological, functional and nuclear and optical molecular imaging capabilities.
Using a single animal scan and a single anesthesia session, this unique system can acquire high-resolution CT, high-definition PET and SPECT, high-energy theranostic as well as bioluminescence and fluorescence images. The integration of these multimodal-imaging capabilities leads to improved data quality and reduces the use of animal models.
ZEISS plans to build a new shared innovation hub on the north campus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2018; the €30 million hub will cover 12,000 square meters. With the ZEISS Innovation Hub, the global technology leader in optics and optoelectronics is making a sustainable investment in Germany as a place for innovation.....
Specialised Imaging has released a new 20-page catalogue that provides an informative introduction to its complete range of ultra-fast framing cameras and accessories for scientific research applications.
Capable of capturing data at 1 billion frames per second, the SIM range of ultra-fast framing cameras offer the ultimate in ultra-high-speed imaging performance to scientists and engineers across all disciplines. The proprietary optical design of SIM cameras offers up to 32 images without compromising shading, or parallax.....
Fast, High Performance Gel and Blot Imaging in One Compact System
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis sol- utions, today introduced the G:BOX mini, a compact, upgradable, multi-application system for all types of gel and Western blot imaging. Featuring a motorized stage, high performance camera and the option to add HI-LED lighting, this system is an ideal solution for laboratories that need application flexibility....
Chemistry live: Using a scanning tunneling microscope, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) were able for the very first time to witness in detail the activity of catalysts during an electro-chemical reaction.
The measurements show how the surface structure of the catalysts influences their activity. The new analysis method can now be used to improve catalysts for the electrochemical industry. No energy transition without catalysts...
Combined organization delivers proven, high tech solutions to accelerate clinical research
ERT, a global data and technology company that minimizes uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, has announced it has acquired Biomedical Systems, a well-recognized provider of reliable imaging, as well as cardiac safety and respiratory data collection solutions....
Median Technologies have announced that it will lead a scientific and medical round table to discuss the application of its next generation imaging platform iBiopsy® for NASH.
The round table panel will include four world-renowned key opinion leaders: Dr. Richard Jones, MD, MRCP, Vice President, General Medicine, Princeton, NJ, USA. Dr. Jones is a GMC registered UK Physician specializing in internal medicine, clinical pharmacology and cardiology....
Andor Zyla 5.5 sCMOS camera at the heart of new technique to perform real-time 3D imaging at unprecedented spatial resolution
Advances in confocal, two-photon and light-sheet microscopy have rapidly advanced our understanding of cellular and subcellular structures and processes. However, live cell and whole animal imaging could be on the verge of even more breakthroughs following the publication in Nature Photonics of work by a team of Columbia University scientists....
Nikon Instruments announces winners of seventh annual competition that reveals details about an unseen microscopic world
Nikon Instruments Inc. have unveiled the winners of the seventh annual Nikon Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition, awarding First Place to Daniel von Wangenheim from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria for his time lapse video following the root tip of Arabidopsis thaliana...
FLIR Systems has published an applications article that describes how a leading US university has been using a FLIR A655sc thermal imaging camera to study the effect of temperature on tissue autofluorescence.
Tissue autofluorescence spectroscopy is a technique that measures the intrinsic light emissions from biological agents upon excitation by a light source. The technique has been proven to differentiate between normal and diseased tissue and thus shows great promise for surgical procedures.....
The versatile uEye SE cameras from IDS Imaging Development Systems are ideally suited to laboratory automation applications.
The wide choice of CMOS sensors and a choice of USB or GigE interfaces means that cameras can be precisely matched to the particular application. The latest generation of these cameras are available with GigE and USB 3.1 Type-C connections and can be supplied in a robust, dust proof housing with a C-mount lens connection or as a board stack version with or without a C-mount connector....
Deben has been chosen by Phenom-World to supply the Microtest Tensile Stage as an accessory to their Phenom XL range of desktop scanning electron microscopes.
Phenom-World, the leading global supplier of desktop scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), has once again chosen Deben as their preferred supplied of accessories for their Phenom XL range of desktop scanning electron microscopes.....
New ZEISS Axiocam Models Complement Camera Portfolio
ZEISS introduces two new digital microscope cameras; ZEISS Axiocam 702 mono and ZEISS Axiocam 512 color complement the current portfolio of high-speed USB 3.0 microscope cameras. With ZEISS Axiocam 702 mono ZEISS for the first time introduces a microscope camera with a scientific CMOS sensor...
Researchers at Tokai University describe in Advanced Materials how wrapping biological tissue in a nanosheet of a particular organic material results in high-quality microscopy images.
Application of the wrap prevents the sample from drying out, and hence from shrinking, enabling larger image-recording times. In order to fully understand how biological cells function, it is important to be able to visualize them in their environment, on long-enough timescales and with high-enough resolution....
Deben reports on the results of a new paper presented at the 2016 X-Ray Microscopy Conference where a new heating and compression stage has been developed and tested to study irradiated graphite
Scientists from the University of Manchester and Diamond Light Source (Diamond) have worked with Deben in the development and commissioning of a new mechanical testing stage. This stage enabled the simultaneous heating and compression of irradiated graphite during synchrotron microtomographic imaging.....
Skin temperature is an important physiological measure that can reflect the presence of illness and injury as well as provide insight into the localised interactions between the body and the environment. Historically, human skin temperature has been assessed using contact measurement devices....
HORIBA Scientific, global leader in spectroscopic analysis for over 40 years, is proud to announce the new HORIBA CLUE Series detectors for Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM). HORIBA CLUE Series include: i-CLUE fast Cathodo-Luminescence (CL) imaging system featuring a large field of view ellipsoidal collection mirror...
Prior Scientific's H117 Motorized Precision Stage was used in a study comparing the characteristics of traditional fluorescent probes with SERS NPs, in which the two methods were used to fluorescently image both live and fixed cells. Interest in using SERS NPs rather than traditional fluorescent tags in biological imaging is growing....
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is formed from the collaboration between Wageningen University and the Wageningen Research foundation. With the mission “to explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life,” its staff and students work in the domain of healthy foods and living environments....
The CytoSMART™ 2 Device features an advanced optical system and more powerful camera unit, which enables researchers to capture higher-resolution images of their cell cultures. Images taken can be digitally enlarged two-fold to display more cellular detail for enhanced monitoring of cell cultures....
The event was attended by many members of the ZEISS leadership team, including President of ZEISS North America, James Sharp. According to Sharp, working with a top research institution like UConn is part of the ZEISS tradition....
Using a single animal scan and a single anesthesia session, this unique system can acquire high-resolution CT, high-definition PET and SPECT, high-energy theranostic as well as bioluminescence and fluorescence images. The integration of these multimodal-imaging capabilities leads to improved data quality and reduces the use of animal models.
Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2018; the €30 million hub will cover 12,000 square meters. With the ZEISS Innovation Hub, the global technology leader in optics and optoelectronics is making a sustainable investment in Germany as a place for innovation.....
Capable of capturing data at 1 billion frames per second, the SIM range of ultra-fast framing cameras offer the ultimate in ultra-high-speed imaging performance to scientists and engineers across all disciplines. The proprietary optical design of SIM cameras offers up to 32 images without compromising shading, or parallax.....
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis sol- utions, today introduced the G:BOX mini, a compact, upgradable, multi-application system for all types of gel and Western blot imaging. Featuring a motorized stage, high performance camera and the option to add HI-LED lighting, this system is an ideal solution for laboratories that need application flexibility....
The measurements show how the surface structure of the catalysts influences their activity. The new analysis method can now be used to improve catalysts for the electrochemical industry. No energy transition without catalysts...
ERT, a global data and technology company that minimizes uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, has announced it has acquired Biomedical Systems, a well-recognized provider of reliable imaging, as well as cardiac safety and respiratory data collection solutions....
The round table panel will include four world-renowned key opinion leaders: Dr. Richard Jones, MD, MRCP, Vice President, General Medicine, Princeton, NJ, USA. Dr. Jones is a GMC registered UK Physician specializing in internal medicine, clinical pharmacology and cardiology....
Advances in confocal, two-photon and light-sheet microscopy have rapidly advanced our understanding of cellular and subcellular structures and processes. However, live cell and whole animal imaging could be on the verge of even more breakthroughs following the publication in Nature Photonics of work by a team of Columbia University scientists....
Nikon Instruments Inc. have unveiled the winners of the seventh annual Nikon Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition, awarding First Place to Daniel von Wangenheim from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria for his time lapse video following the root tip of Arabidopsis thaliana...
Tissue autofluorescence spectroscopy is a technique that measures the intrinsic light emissions from biological agents upon excitation by a light source. The technique has been proven to differentiate between normal and diseased tissue and thus shows great promise for surgical procedures.....
The wide choice of CMOS sensors and a choice of USB or GigE interfaces means that cameras can be precisely matched to the particular application. The latest generation of these cameras are available with GigE and USB 3.1 Type-C connections and can be supplied in a robust, dust proof housing with a C-mount lens connection or as a board stack version with or without a C-mount connector....
Phenom-World, the leading global supplier of desktop scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), has once again chosen Deben as their preferred supplied of accessories for their Phenom XL range of desktop scanning electron microscopes.....
ZEISS introduces two new digital microscope cameras; ZEISS Axiocam 702 mono and ZEISS Axiocam 512 color complement the current portfolio of high-speed USB 3.0 microscope cameras. With ZEISS Axiocam 702 mono ZEISS for the first time introduces a microscope camera with a scientific CMOS sensor...
Application of the wrap prevents the sample from drying out, and hence from shrinking, enabling larger image-recording times. In order to fully understand how biological cells function, it is important to be able to visualize them in their environment, on long-enough timescales and with high-enough resolution....
Scientists from the University of Manchester and Diamond Light Source (Diamond) have worked with Deben in the development and commissioning of a new mechanical testing stage. This stage enabled the simultaneous heating and compression of irradiated graphite during synchrotron microtomographic imaging.....