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Smartphone Imaging System Detects Nanoparticles

Your smartphone now can see what the naked eye cannot: A single virus and bits of material less than one-thousandth of the width of a human hair.

17 Sep 2013

Spider Silk Coated With Carbon Nanotubes Conducts Electricity

Eden Steven, a physicist at Florida State University’s MagLab facility, discovered that simple methods can result in surprising and environmentally friendly high-tech outcomes during his experiments with spider silk and carbon nanotubes, the results of which are now published in the online research journal Nature Communications.

16 Sep 2013

Researchers Explore the Microworld Using Haptic Optical Tweezers

What if you could reach through a microscope to touch and feel the microscopic structures under the lens? In a breakthrough that may usher in a new era in the exploration of the worlds that are a million times smaller than human beings, researchers at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France have unveiled a new technique that allows microscope users to manipulate samples using a technology known as "haptic optical tweezers."

16 Sep 2013

Bruker Acquires Pioneer of Multiphoton Fluorescence Microscopy, Prairie Technologies

Bruker Corporation today announced that it has acquired Prairie Technologies, Inc. (Prairie), a provider of life science fluorescence microscopy products. The acquisition strengthens Bruker’s position in life science markets, adding to the Bruker Nano Surfaces Division’s existing life science atomic force microscopy (Bio-AFM) systems.

From Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology 13 Sep 2013

Piezosystem Jena Announce PZ300 Z-Axis Stage for Advanced Microscopy

The accuracy and speed of probe positioning is a critical and important value for microscopy techniques such as laser scanning microscopy, or other techniques including fluorescent, super resolution, or image processing.

From Piezosystem Jena GmbH 12 Sep 2013

Powerful New Method to Control Speed and Direction of Motion of Microscopic Structures in Water

Chemists, physicists and computer scientists at the University of Warwick have come together to devise a new powerful and very versatile way of controlling the speed and direction of motion of microscopic structures in water using what they have dubbed chemically ‘motorised microscopic matchsticks’.

11 Sep 2013

Caliber I.D. Launches VivaScope 1500 Multilaser System for Analyzing Living Skin

Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics (Caliber I.D.), formerly Lucid, Inc. (LCDX), has introduced the VivaScope® 1500 Multilaser system, the newest device in the company’s VivaScope confocal microscope product line. VivaScope Multilaser cellular imaging devices give researchers the option of a painless, noninvasive optical skin biopsy to study changes at the cellular level.

11 Sep 2013

Nanoscale Study of Healthy Human Tissues for Developing Regenerative Cell Techniques

Scientists at the University of Southampton are to study the 3D architecture of healthy human tissues down to the nanometre scale (one billionth of a meter), to develop regenerative cell techniques for musculoskeletal repair.

10 Sep 2013

New Technique Overcomes Limitations of Light Microscopy

Scientists at the Campus Vienna Biocenter (Austria) have found a way to overcome some of the limitations of light microscopy. Applying the new technique, they can record the activity of a worm’s brain with high temporal and spatial resolution, ultimately linking brain anatomy to brain function. The journal Nature Methods publishes the details in its current issue.

10 Sep 2013

Caliber I.D. Adds Two New Distributors for its VivaScope Confocal Microscope Platform

Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics (Caliber I.D.), formerly Lucid, Inc. (LCDX), has added two new distributors for its platform of VivaScope® confocal microscopes. Emdutos Industria e Comercio Ltda will distribute the VivaScope® devices in the Brazilian market.

7 Sep 2013

Microscopy News

Smartphone Imaging System Detects Nanoparticles

Spider Silk Coated With Carbon Nanotubes Conducts Electricity

Researchers Explore the Microworld Using Haptic Optical Tweezers

Bruker Acquires Pioneer of Multiphoton Fluorescence Microscopy, Prairie Technologies

Piezosystem Jena Announce PZ300 Z-Axis Stage for Advanced Microscopy

Powerful New Method to Control Speed and Direction of Motion of Microscopic Structures in Water

Caliber I.D. Launches VivaScope 1500 Multilaser System for Analyzing Living Skin

Nanoscale Study of Healthy Human Tissues for Developing Regenerative Cell Techniques

New Technique Overcomes Limitations of Light Microscopy

Caliber I.D. Adds Two New Distributors for its VivaScope Confocal Microscope Platform

Enhancing Material Properties through Nanotube Encapsulation

Sustainable Carbon Nanomaterial Gii Set to Transform Energy Storage in Internet of Things Devices

Brain-Inspired Nano-Tech Promises New Era for Electronics

Breakthrough in 2D Material Growth Opens Doors to Cleaner Energy and Next-Generation Technology

Sustainable Future for Carbon Nanotubes

Electrospinning and the Future of Nanotechnology

How Electrospinning is Shaping the Future of Nanotechnology

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

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