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Carl Zeiss Launches Axio Scan.Z1 Digital Slide Scanner for Brightfield and Fluorescence at American Society for Cell Biology Meeting

At this year's annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco, USA, the Microscopy business group of Carl Zeiss is presenting a Digital Slide Scanner. Axio Scan.Z1 is an automated microscope system which allows researchers to digitalize fixed tissue sections and cytologic specimens in brightfield and fluorescence.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 22 Feb 2013

Cornell Acquires New Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope and Laser Microdissection Systems

Cornell's Imaging Facility owns microscopes, scanners and ultrasound units for revealing details that can't be seen with the naked eye. Now the facility has added two more state-of-the-art machines, one to extract tiny samples for genetic analysis and another to image fast microscopic events.

14 Feb 2013

Carl Zeiss Donates Research Microscope to Internship Program for Minority Students

Attracting the next generation of research scientists: research microscope donated by Carl Zeiss helps motivate minority students to pursue science careers.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 14 Feb 2013

Princeton Releases New Microscope Interface for IsoPlane Imaging Spectrograph

Princeton Instruments (Trenton, New Jersey, USA) is pleased to announce the availability of a new microscope interface designed for exclusive use with the company’s recently introduced aberration-free IsoPlane® imaging spectrograph. The Princeton Instruments MicroSpec® microscope interface allows researchers to easily acquire quality images and spectra of their samples with one pre-engineered system.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 13 Feb 2013

False-Colored SEM Image of Sea Urchin Tooth Earns Top Honors

Close your eyes and picture an ocean reef: vivid violet, cool blue and tropical green intertwining in gentle curves and delicate edges. And that's just the urchin teeth.

1 Feb 2013

Advanced Brain Imaging Using Three-Photon Microscopy

Scientists may be a step closer to cracking one of the world's most compelling mysteries: the impossible complexity of the brain and its billions of neurons. Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new way of taking high-resolution, three-dimensional images of the brain's inner workings through a three-fold improvement in the depth limits of multiphoton microscopy, a fluorescence-based imaging technique with Cornell roots.

22 Jan 2013

Caliber’s VivaScope to be Featured at Orlando Dermatology Aesthetic + Clinical Conference

Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics, Inc.'s (formerly Lucid, Inc.) VivaScope® system will be featured at the Orlando Dermatology Aesthetic & Clinical Conference (ODAC) to be held in Orlando, Florida, January 18-21, 2013. ODAC hosts opinion leaders from across the globe.

11 Jan 2013

Carl Zeiss Launches New Axio Lab.A1 System for Polarization Microscopy

Carl Zeiss introduces the new Axio Lab.A1 microscope. The Axio Lab.A1 is now available for use in polarization microscopy, and is particularly suitable for requirements in student education and routine laboratories.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 11 Jan 2013

Linkam Scientific Instruments TST350 Tensile Temperature Stage Used to Study Influence of DMDBS on Polypropylene Films.

Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments have been chosen as suppliers of a TST350 stage for the Complex Fluids and Polymer Engineering Division, National Chemical Laboratory, India to study the mechanical properties of dimethyl dibenzylidene sorbitol (DMDBS).

8 Jan 2013

Researchers Analyze Microscopic Tooth Wear Patterns in Saber-Toothed Cats Using Confocal Microscopes

In the period just before they went extinct, the American lions and saber-toothed cats that roamed North America in the late Pleistocene were living well off the fat of the land.

27 Dec 2012