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Olympus America to Distribute Yokogawa's Confocal Microscopy Systems in North America

Yokogawa Electric has announced the successful completion of a sales and distribution agreement with the US affiliate of Olympus. As per the agreement, Olympus America will exclusively distribute CellVoyager CV1000, an all-in-one confocal microscopy system from Yokogawa, in the Canadian and US markets.

18 Aug 2012

Radioactively Labeled Nanobody Helps Visualize Macrophages in Tumors

Researchers have developed a novel technique for reducing the radiation dosage to destroy cancerous cells. Radiotherapy is a standard treatment for cancer. Radiotherapists apply varied doses depending on the severity of the tumor. Often, they have to apply very high doses to the whole tumor for effective treatment. This may cause side effects in the patients.

3 Aug 2012

Olympus to Hold Siginificant Life Science Product Launch at EMC 2012

The new line of systems being introduced by Olympus in September will be the company’s most significant life science product launch in the last few years. The microscopes in question contain several novel design features not seen on any other frame to date, and are expected to open up new research applications.

12 Jul 2012

Intravital Microscopy Helps Image Hepatic Excretory Function during Cholestasis

A novel fluorescence microscopy-based imaging technique has been reported for performing imaging of the hepatobiliary excretory function in rats.

7 Jul 2012

UCLA Team Develops New Optical Microscope with World’s Fastest Camera

A research team headed by Bahram Jalali and Dino Di Carlo from UCLA has devised a new optical microscope that allows easier detection of rare cells such as circulating cancer cells.

7 Jul 2012

Leica's SR GSD Super-Resolution Microscope Wins R&D100 Award

Leica SR GSD is a winner of the R&D100 Award, granted by R&D Magazine for outstanding technical developments. It is the 50th anniversary of this prestigeous award. Leica Microsystems was honored together with the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen for the development of this ground-breaking widefield super-resolution microscope.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 6 Jul 2012

Temperature Controlled Microscopy Used to Grow Lysozyme Crystals

Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments report on the use of their LTS350 stage at the University of Leeds to visualise and grow HEW lysozyme crystals.

27 Jun 2012

Special Offers on Carl Zeiss Confocal and Multiphoton Microscopy Systems

Carl Zeiss Microscopy, a company of the Carl Zeiss Group and leading provider of light, laser-scanning and electron and ion beam microscopes, announces a recently introduced special pricing offer for the majority of their confocal and multiphoton microscopy systems for customers who submit a grant specifically for Zeiss system.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 25 Jun 2012

Full Scientific Programme for the 15th European Microscopy Congress is Announced

The Scientific Programme for the 15th European Microscopy Congress includes six plenary talks, 123 invited speakers and 330 oral presentations spread across 72 sessions that embrace light and electron microscopy.

From Royal Microscopical Society 25 Jun 2012