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PSI Researchers Develop an Innovative Achromatic Lens for X-Rays

PSI scientists have developed a ground-breaking achromatic lens for X-rays. This allows the X-ray beams to be accurately focused on a single point even if they have different wavelengths.

15 Mar 2022

New Method Enables Rapid 3D Image Acquisition

A newly proposed technique enables rapid 3D image acquisition. One-scan is a technique involving an elongated light spot that resembles a "needle" which captures three-dimensional (3D) images of a specimen.

9 Mar 2022

New Microscope System Uses Short-Wave Infrared Light to Illuminate Blood, Bacteria

Inflammation of the middle ear is often triggered a cholesteatoma, an aggressive form of chronic otitis media. In order to detect cholesteatomas and bacterial biofilms and to remove them safely, the new collaborative project 'BetterView' is working on a special surgical microscope.

8 Mar 2022

New Lensless Microscopy Captures Cellular-Level Details in Living Tissue

First, catch the tiger. Then attach Bio-FlatScope, the latest iteration of lensless microscopy being developed at Rice University.

8 Mar 2022

Microscope Reveals the Optical Properties of Living Cone Mitochondria Exposed to Light

Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have discovered that power-producing organelles in the eye's photoreceptor cells, called mitochondria, function as microlenses that help channel light to these cells' outer segments where it's converted into nerve signals.

8 Mar 2022

Biocompatible Ultrasound Transducer Chip for Better Cell Stimulation and Imaging

Ultrasound scans,?best known for monitoring pregnancies or imaging organs, can also be used to stimulate cells and direct cell function. A team of Penn State researchers has developed an easier, more effective way to harness the technology for biomedical applications.

28 Feb 2022

Researchers Develop a Novel Methodology that Swiftly Detects COVID-19

The novel method enables the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal exudate (the very same samples used in a PCR test) from symptomatic individuals with a sensitivity of 100% and selectivity of 87.5%.

21 Feb 2022

Vortex Microscope can Capture 3D Motion of Molecules in Liquid

Comprehending the basics of molecular interaction in the real, chaotic, dynamic setting of a living body is a challenge that has to be surpassed so as to deal with a variety of diseases, such as Alzheimer’s.

18 Feb 2022

World-first: Speed of Sound Used to Measure Elasticity of Materials

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have devised a revolutionary new technique for measuring the microscopic elasticity of materials for the first time. Known as SRAS, the technology works by measuring the speed of sound across the material’s surface.

17 Feb 2022

Using “Squeezed Light” to Improve Sensitivity of Quantum Microscopy

Lasers are often used to look at objects in microscopes. But even the best laser has "quantum noise" that makes a picture blurry and hides the details.

15 Feb 2022