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Scientists Invent New Microscope to Reveal 3-D Shapes of Living Cells

A new microscope invented by scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus will let researchers use an exquisitely thin sheet of light -- similar to that used in supermarket bar-code scanners -- to peer inside single living cells, revealing the three-dimensional shapes of cellular landmarks in unprecedented detail.

5 Mar 2011

NASA Begins Testing New Multi-Capability Microscope for Space Applications

NASA began testing a new multi-capability microscope this week on the International Space Station.

5 Mar 2011

NSG Precision Cells Manufactures Custom Flow Cells

NSG Precision Cells has been manufacturing flow cells for flow cytometry, HPLC, life sciences, etc. for over 50 years.

5 Mar 2011

Scientists Use LLNL's NanoSIMS to Explore Solar System Formation

Scientists have found that calcium, aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs), some of the oldest objects in the solar system, formed far away from our sun and then later fell back into the mid-plane of the solar system. The fi...

From Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 5 Mar 2011

Performance Comparison of Implen's NanoPhotometer Pearl and Thermo Fisher's NanoDrop 2000c

Spectrophotometers allow for quantification of nucleic acid and protein samples based on absorbance at 260nm and 280nm, respectively.

4 Mar 2011

Camtek Wins $4 Million Worth Order for Metrology and Inspection Systems

Camtek Ltd. ("Camtek"), announced today that it received a repeated order from a leading OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test) supplier in Asia.

4 Mar 2011

Illinois Physicists Combine Two Molecular Imaging Technologies to Study DNA Proteins

Illinois researchers have combined two molecular imaging technologies to create an instrument with incredible sensitivity that provides new, detailed insight into dynamic molecular processes.

From University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 4 Mar 2011

Researchers Develop Gold-Coated SERS Nanosubstrates for Medical Diagnostics

Gold-coated substrates of gallium nitride with specifically formed surface, developed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the PAS display worldwide unique properties.

3 Mar 2011

Sharpest Tip in Electron Microscope Achieves World Record

A very tiny, very sharp object has put Canadian researchers at the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) and University of Alberta into the Guinness Book of World Records. Only one atom at its end point, the ti...

From National Institute for Nanotechnology 3 Mar 2011

New Microsphere Nanoscope to Examine Living Viruses

Writing in the journal Nature Communications, the team have created a microscope which shatters the record for the smallest object the eye can see, beating the diffraction limit of light.

3 Mar 2011