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Biotium and UC Berkeley Announce New Study Offering Strategy for Designing Fluorescent Dyes for Super-resolution Imaging

Biotium, a leading life science reagent supplier and producer of innovative dyes, has collaborated with Professor Ke Xu at University of California, Berkeley to generate a strategy for improving the photoswitching behavior of rhodamine dyes for optimal (d)STORM [(direct) stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy] performance.

From Biotium, Inc. 4 Feb 2022

Ultrafast Electron Microscope at Argonne can Better Capture Nanoparticle Activity

A unique instrument at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials combines a modified transmission electron microscope with an ultrafast laser system to reveal small details with potentially big impacts.

28 Jan 2022

Up to 3M€ Funding Opportunity to Implement Free-Form Micro-Optical Components

To advance Europe’s competitiveness and support advanced technical developments, the European Commission is providing €3 million of funding to early adopters of the PHABULOuS Pilot Line Services for the implementation and integration of free-form micro-optical components.

25 Jan 2022

Scientists Achieve Efficient Electron-Beam Modulation Using Integrated Photonics

The transmission electron microscope (TEM) can image molecular structures at the atomic scale by using electrons instead of light, and has revolutionized materials science and structural biology.

23 Dec 2021

NIST Scientists Improve the Accuracy of Optical Microscopes to Image Microdroplets

Sneezes, rain clouds, and ink jet printers: They all produce or contain liquid droplets so tiny it would take several billion of them to fill a liter bottle.

21 Dec 2021

Teledyne Photometrics partners with Dotphoton AG

New alliance to leverage metrologically-accurate compression solutions with modern optical imaging.

From Teledyne Photometrics 17 Dec 2021

Ultra-Rapid Cryo-Arrest Microscope for Observing Molecular Patterns of Life

Fluorescence light microscopy has the unique ability to observe cellular processes over a scale that bridges four orders of magnitude. Yet, its application to living cells is fundamentally limited by the very rapid and unceasing movement of molecules that define its living state.

14 Dec 2021

Detachable Head-Mounted Microscope Images Brain Activity in Freely Moving Mice

The first-ever detachable head-mounted photoacoustic microscope for imaging brain activity in freely moving mice has been developed by scientists. The device has an option to be removed once imaging is over, thus enabling long-term studies that can disclose crucial insights into neurodegenerative diseases and other neurological disorders.

10 Dec 2021

Deep Learning and Hardware Innovations Improve Performance of Confocal Microscope

Since artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky patented the principle of confocal microscopy in 1957, it has become the workhorse standard in life science laboratories worldwide, due to its superior contrast over traditional wide-field microscopy.

25 Nov 2021

New Microscope Uses Photonics to Gain Insights into ‘Superbugs’

Scientists are building a new super-resolution microscope that uses laser light to study the inner workings and behaviours of superbugs to gain new insights into how they cause disease.

24 Nov 2021