CENTER VALLEY, Pa. — Olympus today introduced the new IX81®-ZDC2 Zero Drift microscope system, a motorized inverted microscope with a comprehensive, integrated autofocus solution for investigators doing time-lapse experiments. The IX81-ZDC2 Zero Drift system’s next-generation autofocus system is designed to operate continuously so that it maintains focus even when the events being observed happen very […]

EVANSTON, Ill–Northwestern University’s Biological Imaging Facility (BIF) has been selected as one of two sites in the world to receive a JEOL ClairScope (JASM-6200). JEOL has also designated BIF as an Applications Development Center to collaborate with JEOL scientists to design methodologies that will benefit users. The ClairScope is a unique instrument that integrates an […]

Asylum Research, the technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (AFM/SPM), announces that its new automated AFM/SPM Probe Store is now online. The probe store provides simple search, sort, selection, quotation and purchase for a wide variety of different probes. Probe sort/search can be performed in seconds by application (e.g. biology, force measurements, electrical probing, […]

Olympus Continues to Grow and Strengthen Sales and Service Capability CENTER VALLEY, Pa. — Olympus America Inc. continues to build its industrial instrument distribution network, naming Hitschfel Instruments, Inc., to handle distribution of Olympus industrial microscope products in central and southern Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and greater Memphis. The largest and most advanced […]

Chester, UK: Whitehouse Scientific has extended its range of glass microspheres from 10 microns down to 1.5 microns with the addition of a new certified range of silica microspheres. In addition to their use in particle sizing, these silica microspheres have applications in areas such as drug delivery, respiratory studies and filter testing. Supplied as […]

Heerbrugg, Switzerland. The latest high-performance generation of the well-known Leica M series has been extended to include the new Leica M60 Stereomicroscope. Leica Microsystems therefore now offers a whole family of stereomicroscopes designed according to the modular CMO (Common Main Objective) principle: the Leica M50, M60 and M80. Featuring superlative optical quality, an intelligent range […]

Leading microscope and optical systems producer to distribute Hamilton Thorne’s laser products in North America TORONTO — – Hamilton Thorne Ltd. (TSX-V: HTL), a leading provider of advanced laser systems and instruments for the stem cell research and fertility clinic markets, today announces a vendor partnership agreement with Leica Microsystems GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany, a […]

PEABODY, Mass. & OBERKOCHEN, Germany–Today, Carl Zeiss launches ATLAS™, a powerful hard- and software package, which, in combination with any scanning electron microscope from Carl Zeiss, enables quick and efficient imaging of large-area specimens with nanometer resolution. ATLAS is initially being utilized both in the area of neurological research, e.g. the young field of brain […]

Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and the European Academy in Bolzano Berlin,JPK Instruments, a worldleading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the work of the Stark research group at LMU-Munich in cooperation with the EURAC Bolzano where a NanoWizard® AFM system has been used to reveal the nanostructure […]