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Asylum's Cypher Atomic Force Microscope Awarded R+D100 Award for 2009

Asylum Research and R+D Magazine have announced that Asylum's Cypher Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) has been awarded the R+D100 Award for 2009. Cypher is the first completely new small sample AFM/SPM in over a decade and is the world's highest resolution AFM.

20 Jul 2009

Physicists Develop Technique to Record Three-dimensional Movies of Microscopic Systems

Physicists at New York University have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video. The work, which is reported in Optics Expre...

20 Jul 2009

Heason Technology Wins £250,000 Order from Synchrotron Soleil

Heason Technology has won a £250,000 order from Synchrotron Soleil, the French national synchrotron facility and research laboratory, to design and manufacture a 14-axis nano-scale manipulator to position samples.

19 Jul 2009

New Research and Product Development Centre for Nanotechnology

Alberta will be home to a new research and product development centre and state-of-the-art Hitachi microscopes thanks to support provided through the Western Economic Partnership Agreement between the government of Canad...

17 Jul 2009

Palm MicroTweezer Module Enables Manipulation of Microscopic Particles and Quantitative Measurement of Forces

The microscopic manipulation of biological specimens, individual cells and cell components is becoming increasingly common in life science laboratories around the world.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 17 Jul 2009

New Microscope that Views the Subatomic Universe Headed for University of Victoria

A new microscope that views the subatomic universe -- the first of its kind in the world -- is being built for the University of Victoria, Canada, in collaboration with Hitachi High-Technologies. The new microscope-c...

16 Jul 2009

In Tune Enables Researchers to Perform Novel Fluorescence Measurements for the First Time

The explosion in the number of new fluorescent dyes has opened up exciting new opportunities for life science researchers. However, each requires the microscope system to be equipped with an appropriate excitation laser, a limitation that has greatly restricted their adoption.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 15 Jul 2009

University Unveils Two New Microscopes to the World

Waikato University has unveiled two new microscopes to the world. A $1 million Hitachi Scanning Electron Microscope replaces its 20-year-old predecessor, the other is a $500,000 Transmission Electron Microscope.

13 Jul 2009

Veeco Joins Microsystems Industrial Group

Veeco Instruments (Plainview, NY) has joined the Microsystems Industrial Group (MIG), an exclusive member industry consortium formed by Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) in Cambridge, MA.

From Veeco 13 Jul 2009

Attachments Allow Use of LED-Based Microscope for Fluorescence Applications

The Primo Star iLED microscope from Carl Zeiss is now available with three additional fluorescence attachments that allow users to work with different dyes such as FITC, Dapi and Rhodamine/Cy 3. This permits the use of the LED-based microscope for single fluorescence applications in training, routine procedures and basic research.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 9 Jul 2009