Collaboration to initially focus on the development and global commercialisation of a suite of CelLuminate dyes, specifically created to revolutionise live cell imaging by enabling cells to remain functional and viable for up to 14 days. Abcam plc, a global innovator in life science reagents and tools, and SomaServe Ltd, a Pharma service and specialist reagent business exploiting PolyNaut® Technology, have announced a partnership to commercialise the cell delivery potential of...

Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is delighted to announce its GeneSys software is now available with the addition of new ChemiRapid, Signal Accumulation Calculator (SAC) and Enhanced Image features designed to improve chemiluminescence imaging workflow and quality. The software, available for free download to users of specific Syngene imaging systems, offers picture perfect chemi blot images....

Congratulations to Christophe Deben and the team at the University of Antwerp's Center for Oncological Research (CORE) on winning a fully loaded Tecan Spark® Cyto plate reader with live cell imaging and real-time cytometry. This competition, which ran from April to September 2019, required labs to submit a written proposal explaining how they would use the system to further their research and advance scientific understanding....

The dry magnet system is helping to advance medical research at the Wohl Institute for Translational Medicine, part of the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem. The system has a large axial 15 cm field of view which can be used for viewing the whole body of a rat, or other subjects in molecular detail. Simultaneous imaging, using both MRI and PET imaging at the same time, is possible as the MRI system has a PET module inserted within the bore of the dry magnet....

We live in a three-dimensional ever-changing world. Yet in microscopy, our ability to image in 3D and at the speeds required to observe fast living processes remains a challenge. Compared to other light microscopy techniques, fluorescence microscopy can achieve high specificity and contrast, though there are still major limitations in signal-to-noise ratio and phototoxicity.

Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is delighted to announce it is now supplying the AirClean® AC600 Series of PCR Workstations. Some of the Workstations include HEPA filtration and all use UV irradiation to minimise the risk of airborne DNA contamination, saving scientists time by producing consistent quality DNA from their PCR....

Deben, a leading provider of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for microscopy, reports on the University of Surrey’s efforts to develop the groundwork of new, state of the art ceramic composites that will revolutionise the treatment of oral disease. Dr Tan Sui is a Materials Engineering Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Sciences at the University of Surrey, UK...

Rapid 3D imaging and in-depth structural analysis opens up quality monitoring and spermatozoa selection for artificial insemination in humans and animals. A key determinant for success in artificial insemination for humans and animals is the quality of the spermatozoa. However, current 2D label-free imaging methods can only detect abnormal spermatozoa with significant morphological changes or incomplete structures and are unable to provide information on their internal structure or composition....

Materials and Life Science researchers can now experience faster accessibility of deeper regions of interest when investigating samples in 3D. With the new extensions on ZEISS Crossbeam 350/550 and ZEISS Atlas 5, users benefit from improvements in speed and data quality when performing multi-scale, multi-modal studies in additive manufacturing, electronics, battery research, biomaterials and biological tissue investigations on resin-embedded biological specimens...

Vision Engineering, the leading manufacturer of high-quality visual inspection and measurement technologies, announces that it has sold over 20,000 Mantis microscope products in the last five years. The Mantis range of ergonomic eyepiece-less stereo microscopes offers superb optical performance with magnification options up to 20x, making it a perfect alternative to more traditional inspection stereo microscopes....

ZEISS is among the winners of the prestigious R&D 100 Awards 2019, with judges from R&D Magazine selecting ZEISS Elyra 7 with Lattice SIM for superresolution microscopy as an award recipient in the “Analytical/Test” category. ZEISS Elyra 7 with Lattice SIM is a microscope system for superresolution imaging in biomedical research. Its novel Lattice SIM technology is extremely light-efficient and fast. Researchers profit from less photodamage and high imaging speed....

The Deep Reality Viewer (DRV) is a world-first technology which produces high-resolution 3-dimensional stereo images without the need for a monitor, headset or glasses. Essentially, images “float” in front of a viewing mirror for the user. Based on this new technology, the digital 3D viewing system, DRV-Z1, was developed as a microscope version with stereo zoom....

The new Olympus SLIDEVIEW VS200 slide scanner captures high-quality virtual slide images and offers flexibility to empower advanced quantitative image analysis for brain, cancer and stem cell research, as well as drug discovery. Simple to use, its intuitive workflows enable users to start scanning a slide in as few as two clicks. By employing Olympus X Line objectives at the core of the system, users obtain flatter images with a wider field of view....

A new type of microscopy is helping to unlock the secrets of the zebrafish’s heart – which could also teach us more about how human hearts form, grow and heal. In a new paper published recently in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh describe how they have developed a new method to capture 3D video images of the growing hearts of zebrafish embryos for the first time....

ZEISS and Kyoto University are intensifying their cooperation and have signed a new strategic research agreement. As part of the agreement, the partners are opening the ZEISS iCeMS Innovation Core – a collaborative laboratory at Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS). As such, the contract aims to further solidify the long-standing partnership between the two institutions...

To mark the recent launch of Edinburgh Instruments new RM5 Raman Microscope, the company has today announced its partnership with Bio-Rad and its KnowItAll Raman Spectral Identification Partner Program. The partnership enables Edinburgh Instruments to give its customers access to the largest Raman Spectral Database and Raman Identification Software....

Deben, a leading provider of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for microscopy, reports on how amateur arachnologist Jeremy Poole uses the Deben Back-Scattered Electron Detector to image Britain’s spiders. There are approximately 700 species of spider in Britain, these can be divided into 34 families and categorised further into separate genera...

Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is pleased to announce it has entered a sponsorship agreement with Tufts Launchpad | BioLabs developed by Tufts University to be Boston’s premier fully equipped, co-working and shared lab space for biotech start-ups. Under the terms of the sponsorship, scientists working in biotech and life science companies located at Tufts Launchpad | BioLabs will have access to a G:BOX mini multi-application imaging system....

Development of the world’s first holotomographic microscope with 3D fluorescence recognised as photonics breakthrough by the 2019 Microscopy Today Innovation Award. Disruptive technology that combines the quantitative phase imaging (QPI) approach of label-free 3D refractive index (RI) tomography with fluorescence imaging to reveal the structure, volume, surface area, concentration, and dry matter mass of individual live cells in real-time....