Oxford Nanoimaging (ONI) commence sales of an elegant desktop optical microscope capable of zooming in on objects as tiny as structures inside living cells.
This super-resolution microscope will allow scientists to watch how individual molecules perform chemical reactions in real-time. ONI's microscope, the Nanoimager, has the footprint of a desktop computer, is about 30 times smaller and significantly less expensive than current super-resolution microscopes, and it will be manufactured in the UK. ONI have raised £1.2m in a seed funding round from Oxford Sciences Innovation...
You get 6 months of free cloud storage when you buy Imagel
The highly successful Imagel just got even better. The new Imagel has been styled to fit the new Ultra-Thin Transilluminator and has added features. Capturing and saving images using your smart phone really is the quick and easy way of documenting your gels these days. Once captured the free Benchling App gives you a range of features. Gels can be instantly uploaded and securely stored in the Benchling cloud....
Read MoreOxford Nanoimaging Announce the Nanoimager, a Desktop Microscope Delivering Super-Resolution PerformanceJun 13, 2016
Oxford Nanoimaging Limited commence manufacturing and selling microscopes offering super-resolution and single-molecule performance to research users.
Today, the company announces the launch of its first product, the Nanoimager, a desktop, nanoscale imaging system. Developed in the Clarendon Laboratory in the Physics Department at the University of Oxford, Oxford Nanoimaging™ (ONI) announces the release of the exciting desktop fluorescence microscope, the Nanoimager™, to deliver nanoscale resolution imaging of live cells. This innovative approach from the Kapanidis Gene-Machines team...
New products and analytical solutions for improved performance and customer experience in pharmaceutical, industrial and applied markets.
Designed to increase sensitivity, improve specificity and maximize productivity, the new Bruker products introduced at Analytica 2016 include: The new SENTERRA™ II is an easy-to-use, confocal, multi-laser Raman imaging microscope with various acquisition modes to optimize speed or spatial resolution. The Raman engine of the SENTERRA II was redesigned to further improve spectral resolution and performance...
Today UK start up ioLight Limited launches the first high resolution pocket digital microscope.
The instrument displays beautiful images on an iPad for sharing and pasting into reports. For the first time scientists of all ages can capture and share professional quality images in the field instead of bringing samples back to the lab. Conventional microscopes work best on a lab bench, but are too big, sensitive and unstable for field use and they need power, a camera and a computer to capture images...
Upgrade enables confocal superresolution imaging with four times the speed and improved signal-to-noise ratio
Today, ZEISS is expanding the capabilities of the Airyscan detector for confocal laser scanning microscopes (LSM) to applications demanding the highest imaging speeds. The Fast module for ZEISS LSM 880 with Airyscan enables parallel excitation and detection of four image pixels. The result is a speed improvement by a factor of four, while maintaining the outstanding sensitivity of Airyscan and...
Expanding its range of systems to accelerate, standardise and document the cell culture workflow, Olympus has introduced its new CKX-CCSW cell confluency checker software, delivering accurate cell counts for quick and easy decision making.
Accurate cell confluency measurements are now quick to perform on cell cultures with the Olympus CKX-CCSW confluency checker software. Without having to remove cells from the vessel, the software quantifies the exact growth density to quickly help scientists decide on the next step and optimise cultivation conditions. The new software complements the Olympus CKX53 cell culture microscope and Cell Counter...
XEI Scientific Inc. reports on the latest publication from their user group at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
The paper released in the ACS Photonics Journal. The authors describe their work with multilayer molybdenum disulfide and their use of XEI's Soft Clean plasma cleaning system for sample preparation. The research team of Associate Professor Stephen Cronin is located in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at USC Los Angeles. They focus mainly on optical spectroscopy and electron transport at...
SciGene (Sunnyvale, CA) has introduced the MicroFISH™ Assay System, a clinically validated method combining microvolume, multiwell slides with SciGene slide processing instruments to economically perform routine cellular FISH in cytogenetic laboratories.
The system uses 1 µl probe for each 1 µl sample on specially coated 8-well MicroFISH slides. The lower volume conserves precious samples while reducing probe cost by 75%. About SciGene SciGene (Sunnyvale, California, USA) is a privately held company, founded in 2003, that develops instruments and reagents to simplify the FISH workflow used in research and clinical cytogenetic laboratories...
What looks good, performs good and has the perfect price?
When it comes to small, compact gel documentation systems nothing comes close to the Omega Fluor from Aplegen. This entry level gel imaging systems not only looks good on the bench but it has an exceptional performance. The Omega Fluor is an entry level gel imaging system that comes standard with the basic components and exceptional safety features for DNA and protein gel imaging...
All essential light microscopy contrasting methods and high precision 3D topography in a single instrument
ZEISS introduces the confocal laser scanning microscope ZEISS LSM 800 for materials applications and analysis in research and industry. ZEISS LSM 800 enables precise, three-dimensional imaging of microstructures and surfaces. The combination of confocal fluorescence and other contrasting techniques in one instrument enables high-precision examination of nanomaterials, metals, polymers, and semiconductors with maximum information content...
Xmark Media the organisers of Photonex 2016, the UK's showcase photonics conference & exhibition hosted the biennial London Roadshow at Imperial College.
Attendance increased with delegates attracted by an excellent scientific program which focused this year on applications in the life sciences. Photonex London returned to Imperial College in South Kensington with an exciting conference program on advances in photonic tools and techniques for the life sciences. The opening session focussed on the world of optical nanoscopy: meaning to look at new ways to...
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer in the teaching of practical chemistry to students at Bloomfield College in New Jersey.
Dr Maria Vogt is Professor of Chemistry at Bloomfield College, an undergraduate college in New Jersey. She teaches lectures and runs labs in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. Having had a prior research career and publishing more than 45 papers, Dr Vogt now devotes her efforts to prepare students for the "real world" by exposing them to as many hands-on and instrumental skills as possible prior to...
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the research into the interaction of bacteria with microstructured surfaces in the Department of Physics at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.
Dr Christine Müller-Renno is a member of the Ziegler Group in the Physics Department at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. The main topics of their research are in nano- and microelectronics, as well as in medical engineering and fluid analysis. Other topics include catalysts and stain-resistant coatings by the use of nanomaterials. The Group uses the JPK NanoWizard® AFM to study the...
MR Solutions, of Guildford has won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the innovation category.
This award is announced on the Queen’s birthday, 21April and is one of the UK’s highest accolades recognising business achievement. This has been achieved in recognition of MR Solutions’ development of a preclinical multi-modality MRI scanner which does away with the need for liquid helium cooling. In order for high powered MRI scanners to operate the magnet needs to be cooled to a very low...
BioTek Instruments is pleased to announce its collaboration with Merck on an integrated solution for long-term live cell experiments and dynamic time-lapse analyses, including automated cell perfusion and imaging.
The solution leverages each company’s respective expertise, and consists of BioTek’s new Lionheart™ FX Automated Live Cell Imager and Merck’s new CellASIC® ONIX2 Microfluidic System. This collaborative solution was introduced at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting recently held in New Orleans, LA. The Lionheart FX Automated Live Cell Imager is optimized for live cell...
Quorum Technologies, market and technology leaders in electron microscopy coating and cryogenic preparation products, announce the release of the GloQube, a new, compact, easy to use glow discharge system primarily for users of TEM.
The GloQube® is a new, compact, easy to use glow discharge system, used for the hydrophilisation (wetting) of TEM support films and grids and for surface modifications, for example polymer bonding. The GloQube is available in two formats. The GloQube-D has two independent vacuum chambers: a clean chamber for applications requiring hydrophobic/hydrophilic conversion, typically using air as the process gas, and a vapour chamber...
ZEISS introduces an integrated solution to acquire and analyze multi-scale and multi-modal images in light, electron and X-ray microscopy
ZEISS Atlas 5 is a powerful hardware and software package that extends the capacity of ZEISS scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and focused ion beam SEMs (FIB-SEM). ZEISS Atlas 5 streamlines automatic image acquisition and lets users benefit from its efficient navigation and correlation of images from any source including light and X-ray microscopes.
New system allows label free, long time-course, live cell imaging
Phase Focus Ltd, the company pioneering a novel method for high fidelity label-free quantitative imaging, has announced the commercial launch of Livecyte, a new complete live cell imaging system for kinetic cytometry. Livecyte will enable cell biology researchers to achieve a deeper understanding of the phenotypic and kinetic behaviours of both individual and populations of cells in a label free environment...
Introducing ZEISS MultiSEM 506 acquiring more than 2 Tera pixel per hour
ZEISS has announced a new variant of the world’s fastest scanning electron microscope: ZEISS MultiSEM 506 features 91 beams working in parallel and increases the throughput of the ZEISS MultiSEM 505 by a factor of three. The unrivaled net acquisition speed of more than 2 Tera pixel per hour enables large-scaled experiments such as imaging of cubic millimeters of brain tissue at nanometer resolution for the analysis of neural circuits.
Read MoreFluorescence and Chemiluminescence imagingMay 17, 2016
Want to see the biggest surprise in gel and blot imaging?
The Omega Lum G from Aplegen is the ideal package for those looking for a gel and western blot imaging documentation system. It comes complete with everything you need. Simply unpack it to get started capturing images of your gels and blots quickly. What will also surprise most people is the incredible low cost for such a high specification system.
Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in photonics solutions, is adding the Guardian™ Series of active isolation workstations to its industry leading portfolio of isolation systems.
With an unmatched vibration isolation performance starting at 0.5 Hz, Newport’s state-of-the-art workstation is an ideal platform for super high resolution microscopy, metrology and other applications requiring super low frequency isolation. Guardian is an easy to use, fully integrated work station that requires only a minimum of installation and maintenance while providing unmatched vibration...
This super-resolution microscope will allow scientists to watch how individual molecules perform chemical reactions in real-time. ONI's microscope, the Nanoimager, has the footprint of a desktop computer, is about 30 times smaller and significantly less expensive than current super-resolution microscopes, and it will be manufactured in the UK. ONI have raised £1.2m in a seed funding round from Oxford Sciences Innovation...
The highly successful Imagel just got even better. The new Imagel has been styled to fit the new Ultra-Thin Transilluminator and has added features. Capturing and saving images using your smart phone really is the quick and easy way of documenting your gels these days. Once captured the free Benchling App gives you a range of features. Gels can be instantly uploaded and securely stored in the Benchling cloud....
Today, the company announces the launch of its first product, the Nanoimager, a desktop, nanoscale imaging system. Developed in the Clarendon Laboratory in the Physics Department at the University of Oxford, Oxford Nanoimaging™ (ONI) announces the release of the exciting desktop fluorescence microscope, the Nanoimager™, to deliver nanoscale resolution imaging of live cells. This innovative approach from the Kapanidis Gene-Machines team...
Designed to increase sensitivity, improve specificity and maximize productivity, the new Bruker products introduced at Analytica 2016 include: The new SENTERRA™ II is an easy-to-use, confocal, multi-laser Raman imaging microscope with various acquisition modes to optimize speed or spatial resolution. The Raman engine of the SENTERRA II was redesigned to further improve spectral resolution and performance...
The instrument displays beautiful images on an iPad for sharing and pasting into reports. For the first time scientists of all ages can capture and share professional quality images in the field instead of bringing samples back to the lab. Conventional microscopes work best on a lab bench, but are too big, sensitive and unstable for field use and they need power, a camera and a computer to capture images...
Today, ZEISS is expanding the capabilities of the Airyscan detector for confocal laser scanning microscopes (LSM) to applications demanding the highest imaging speeds. The Fast module for ZEISS LSM 880 with Airyscan enables parallel excitation and detection of four image pixels. The result is a speed improvement by a factor of four, while maintaining the outstanding sensitivity of Airyscan and...
Accurate cell confluency measurements are now quick to perform on cell cultures with the Olympus CKX-CCSW confluency checker software. Without having to remove cells from the vessel, the software quantifies the exact growth density to quickly help scientists decide on the next step and optimise cultivation conditions. The new software complements the Olympus CKX53 cell culture microscope and Cell Counter...
The paper released in the ACS Photonics Journal. The authors describe their work with multilayer molybdenum disulfide and their use of XEI's Soft Clean plasma cleaning system for sample preparation. The research team of Associate Professor Stephen Cronin is located in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at USC Los Angeles. They focus mainly on optical spectroscopy and electron transport at...
The system uses 1 µl probe for each 1 µl sample on specially coated 8-well MicroFISH slides. The lower volume conserves precious samples while reducing probe cost by 75%. About SciGene SciGene (Sunnyvale, California, USA) is a privately held company, founded in 2003, that develops instruments and reagents to simplify the FISH workflow used in research and clinical cytogenetic laboratories...
When it comes to small, compact gel documentation systems nothing comes close to the Omega Fluor from Aplegen. This entry level gel imaging systems not only looks good on the bench but it has an exceptional performance. The Omega Fluor is an entry level gel imaging system that comes standard with the basic components and exceptional safety features for DNA and protein gel imaging...
ZEISS introduces the confocal laser scanning microscope ZEISS LSM 800 for materials applications and analysis in research and industry. ZEISS LSM 800 enables precise, three-dimensional imaging of microstructures and surfaces. The combination of confocal fluorescence and other contrasting techniques in one instrument enables high-precision examination of nanomaterials, metals, polymers, and semiconductors with maximum information content...
Attendance increased with delegates attracted by an excellent scientific program which focused this year on applications in the life sciences. Photonex London returned to Imperial College in South Kensington with an exciting conference program on advances in photonic tools and techniques for the life sciences. The opening session focussed on the world of optical nanoscopy: meaning to look at new ways to...
Dr Maria Vogt is Professor of Chemistry at Bloomfield College, an undergraduate college in New Jersey. She teaches lectures and runs labs in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. Having had a prior research career and publishing more than 45 papers, Dr Vogt now devotes her efforts to prepare students for the "real world" by exposing them to as many hands-on and instrumental skills as possible prior to...
Dr Christine Müller-Renno is a member of the Ziegler Group in the Physics Department at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. The main topics of their research are in nano- and microelectronics, as well as in medical engineering and fluid analysis. Other topics include catalysts and stain-resistant coatings by the use of nanomaterials. The Group uses the JPK NanoWizard® AFM to study the...
This award is announced on the Queen’s birthday, 21April and is one of the UK’s highest accolades recognising business achievement. This has been achieved in recognition of MR Solutions’ development of a preclinical multi-modality MRI scanner which does away with the need for liquid helium cooling. In order for high powered MRI scanners to operate the magnet needs to be cooled to a very low...
The solution leverages each company’s respective expertise, and consists of BioTek’s new Lionheart™ FX Automated Live Cell Imager and Merck’s new CellASIC® ONIX2 Microfluidic System. This collaborative solution was introduced at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting recently held in New Orleans, LA. The Lionheart FX Automated Live Cell Imager is optimized for live cell...
The GloQube® is a new, compact, easy to use glow discharge system, used for the hydrophilisation (wetting) of TEM support films and grids and for surface modifications, for example polymer bonding. The GloQube is available in two formats. The GloQube-D has two independent vacuum chambers: a clean chamber for applications requiring hydrophobic/hydrophilic conversion, typically using air as the process gas, and a vapour chamber...
Phase Focus Ltd, the company pioneering a novel method for high fidelity label-free quantitative imaging, has announced the commercial launch of Livecyte, a new complete live cell imaging system for kinetic cytometry. Livecyte will enable cell biology researchers to achieve a deeper understanding of the phenotypic and kinetic behaviours of both individual and populations of cells in a label free environment...
ZEISS has announced a new variant of the world’s fastest scanning electron microscope: ZEISS MultiSEM 506 features 91 beams working in parallel and increases the throughput of the ZEISS MultiSEM 505 by a factor of three. The unrivaled net acquisition speed of more than 2 Tera pixel per hour enables large-scaled experiments such as imaging of cubic millimeters of brain tissue at nanometer resolution for the analysis of neural circuits.
The Omega Lum G from Aplegen is the ideal package for those looking for a gel and western blot imaging documentation system. It comes complete with everything you need. Simply unpack it to get started capturing images of your gels and blots quickly. What will also surprise most people is the incredible low cost for such a high specification system.
With an unmatched vibration isolation performance starting at 0.5 Hz, Newport’s state-of-the-art workstation is an ideal platform for super high resolution microscopy, metrology and other applications requiring super low frequency isolation. Guardian is an easy to use, fully integrated work station that requires only a minimum of installation and maintenance while providing unmatched vibration...