ZEISS presents the new AI Sample Finder for optimal user guidance and operation. With this feature, the open and flexible inverted microscope platform ZEISS Axio Observer makes sample placement easier than ever and significantly reduces the time to experiment. For researchers, it offers a completely different way to operate a microscope, greatly boosting both productivity and ease of use. Users are guided more efficiently and have to perform fewer manual steps....

Syngene, a world-leader in image analysis, is delighted to announce a new release of its GeneSys image capture software is available free of charge to users of Syngene imaging systems. Redesigned with time-saving features, the latest GeneSys software, makes it easy for scientists using G:BOX and G:BOX mini systems to accurately capture and save single or a series of their gel images, as well as chemiluminescent and multiplex fluorescent Western blot images...

As more lab personnel work from home to practice social distancing, employees are using remote work IT platforms to communicate and stay productive. But this change in the way scientists and lab personnel work means labs must adapt their methods to fully leverage remote platforms. If you’re not sure where to start, this blog can help. Here are six tips to help you successfully implement remote microscopy...

A new motorized stand combined with Prior Scientific's portfolio of automation and optical components offers a new way to develop custom optical platforms. The OpenStand is a unique modular platform that allows for easy customization. It is a fully configurable and motorized optical stand, when combined with a range of readily available optics, light sources and accessories, creates a complete customizable optical microscope....

Renishaw has introduced the Particle Analysis software module for its inVia™ confocal Raman microscope. The module automates the inVia microscope so that it can identify particles on images and then chemically analyse them using Raman spectroscopy. Renishaw's inVia Raman system has a high-quality microscope that is ideal for producing optical images of particles on surfaces....

The seemingly effortless and instantaneous colour and iridescence changes displayed by octopuses, squid and cuttlefish is one of Nature’s most amazing sights. Now, researchers have discovered how to use the cephalopod proteins responsible for these changes to manipulate the optical refractive index (RI) of mammalian cellular compartments. By changing this intrinsic physical property of the cell, microscopists could soon be using the RIs of live cells as molecular probes...

Learn about microscopy, its applications, technologies, tips and tricks, imaging methods, and new developments - from the basics to more advanced topics. On the new content platform Microscopy Insights Hub from ZEISS Microscopy, access on-demand webinar recordings, how-to videos and further information pieces about your field of interest....

CytoSMART Technologies has announced the launch of a new automated live-cell imaging system designed for long-term experiments, comparison studies, and large laboratory teams. The CytoSMART Multi Lux is a cost-effective solution for researchers who want to carry out side-by-side comparisons between cell cultures, run long-term experiments, and monitor cells from their home’s comfort....

HORIBA, a global leader in measurement and analysis solutions for advanced research and industry, and the world leader in Raman microscopy and nanoscopy, is thrilled to announce a strategic collaboration with Qnami, leader and pioneer in scanning NV magnetometry based on diamond quantum sensing. After a series of joint research projects, both companies have agreed to accelerate their developments to address the growing needs of cutting-edge technology for the quantitative and non-perturbative analysis...

NanoImaging Services, Inc. (NIS), specialists in transmission electron microscopy (TEM), has announced they have partnered with Thermo Fisher Scientific to increase accessibility to cryoelectron microscopy (cryoEM) technology for the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology community. Having pioneered cryoEM for use in drug discovery and vaccine development applications, NIS brings its proven expertise and experience into this partnership, supported by its growing network of state-of-the-art facilities....

The FRITSCH ANALYSETTE 28 ImageSizer for dry and wet measurement is the ideal Particle Sizer for all applications that require accurate and reproducible measuring results for both particle shape and size. The optical process of Dynamic Image Analysis delivers accurate measuring results, which are available immediately in less than 5 minutes. Your advantage: Great flexibility for different measurement tasks for particle sizes of 20 µm – 20 mm in quality control, research and laboratory....

More than 305,000 high-resolution, multi-channel COVID-19 cellular images captured in less than four weeks with Molecular Devices ImageXpress^® Micro Confocal High-Content Imaging System are now available to the scientific community. With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting millions around the globe, researchers are racing to develop a vaccine or drug treatment. In an effort to better understand the cellular responses to COVID-19, the digital biology company Recursion  has publicly released the world’s largest imaging dataset....

ZEISS introduces the Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox for its industry-leading ZEISS Xradia 3D X-ray microscope and computed tomography systems. With the Toolbox, two modules are announced: an upgraded ZEISS OptiRecon for iterative reconstruction, and ZEISS DeepRecon, microscopy’s first commercially available deep learning reconstruction technology....

CytoSMART Technologies has announced the launch of an automated organoid counter. The software application detects organoids using bright-field image analysis and runs on the Corning® Cell Counter, a CytoSMART product. Said Joffry Maltha, CEO at CytoSMART Technologies "The 3D cellular structures that are formed in organoids have great potential in drug discovery and developmental biology. This has fueled the ever-growing interest in culturing new sub-types of organoids and optimization of current protocols...

Olympus, a leading manufacturer of high-end research microscopes, and Cytosurge, a precision manufacturer of cell manipulation technologies, have entered a co-marketing agreement to become a complete system provider to the scientific community’s growing need for next-generation single-cell and CRISPR genetic manipulation solutions....

NanoImaging Services, Inc., specialists in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) with a vision to make cryoEM workflows accessible to all, today announced the opening of a new facility close to their San Diego headquarters. The new data collection center is the second facility opening in as many months and serves as further evidence of the company’s investment in growth and ongoing service expansion....

Researchers have developed a family of engineered nanobodies which neutralise the SARS-CoV-2 virus, targeting the viral spike protein in a novel way. The research team from The Rosalind Franklin Institute, working with colleagues at Diamond Light Source, Oxford University and Public Health England, have hailed the breakthrough as a potential therapy....

The ZEISS Innovation Hub on the campus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has seen a number of successful collaborations and projects since it opened in early 2020. ZEISS wants the hub to house high-tech and digital start-ups, as well as its own innovation and new business activities. KIT will thus join forces with ZEISS experts to pave the way for the technologies of the future....

The launch of a new JEOL Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope during the summer of 2020 includes virtual demonstrations of its powerful performance directly to those in the market for an analytical ultrahigh resolution SEM. JEOL’s new JSM-IT800 is the company’s top-of-the-line microscope with ultrahigh spatial resolution imaging and analysis at the nanoscale....