CytoSMART Lux3 BR brightfield live-cell imaging system
11 August, 2021CytoSMART Technologies has announced the CytoSMART Lux3 BR brightfield live-cell imaging system — a small brightfield microscope equipped with a high-quality 6.4 MP CMOS camera.
Mightex Polygon UHC DMD pattern illuminator
22 June, 2021Mightex's Polygon DMD pattern illuminators provide spatiotemporal control of light with subcellular resolution, making them a suitable illumination tool for life science research.
Quantum microscope achieves otherwise impossible imaging
22 June, 2021Researchers have created a quantum microscope that can reveal biological structures that would otherwise be impossible to see.
Metamaterial improves resolution in light microscopes
08 June, 2021A new technology improves the resolution of an ordinary light microscope so that it can be used to directly observe finer structures and details in living cells.
Andor SRRF-Stream+ super-resolution functionality for fluorescence microscopes
01 June, 2021SRRF-Stream+ from Andor is a real-time super-resolution microscopy functionality that operates exclusively on Andor's iXon Life, iXon Ultra EMCCD cameras and Sona back-illuminated sCMOS cameras.
Thermo Scientific Talos F200E (S)TEM
10 May, 2021Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced the Talos F200E scanning transmission electron microscope ((S)TEM), combining atomic-level resolution imaging and fast energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) analysis for the demands of the semiconductor industry.
Nikon Eclipse Si biological microscope
01 May, 2021Nikon has announced the release of the Eclipse Si biological microscope, with intelligent time-saving features, an automatic shut-off mode and an ergonomic design to reduce the physical strain that can occur with prolonged microscope use.
Pocket-sized microscope based on nanoLEDs
29 March, 2021 by Lauren DavisResearchers have created a new type of super-resolution optical chip-sized microscope — described as the smallest and cheapest high-resolution microscope to date.
Thermo Scientific Spectra Ultra STEM
08 March, 2021The Thermo Scientific Spectra Ultra is a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) that offers structural and chemical insight on a wide range of materials at atomic-scale resolution.
Thermo Scientific Helios 5 PXL PFIB Wafer DualBeam FIB-SEM
03 March, 2021The Thermo Scientific Helios 5 PXL PFIB Wafer DualBeam is a plasma focused ion beam scanning electron microscope, designed to reduce time to data from days to hours for inline through-stack metrology and verification of high-aspect ratio structures.
Scanning force microscopy turned on its head
17 February, 2021European researchers have developed a new approach that inverts the standard paradigm of scanning force microscopy, raising the prospect of force sensing at the fundamental limit.
JEOL CRYO ARM 300 II (JEM-3300) cold field emission cryo-electron microscope
05 February, 2021JEOL has announced the release of a cold field emission cryo-electron microscope (cryo-EM), the CRYO ARM 300 II (JEM-3300), that makes it quick and easy to obtain high-contrast and high-resolution images.
Nanosurf DriveAFM tip scanning AFM with photothermal actuation
01 February, 2021The DriveAFM, from Nanosurf, is a tip scanning atomic force microscope designed to deliver stable, high-end performance in biological applications.
Scientists improve a classic microscopic imaging technique
27 January, 2021Researchers set out to enhance the sensitivity of phase-contrast microscopy — an imaging technique commonly used by scientists to study biological specimens.
New method for fluorescence lifetime microscopy
20 January, 2021Japanese scientists have found a way to measure both fluorescence intensity and lifetime.