MELVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 15 — Offering the most comprehensive confocal microscope and software package available, Nikon Instruments, Inc.’s (www.nikoninstruments.com) A1 series of confocal laser point scanning systems with dedicated NIS-Elements C software brings biological imaging to life. The software, which enables full integration of confocal specific acquisition controls together with advanced image analysis functionality, now […]

Unique Technology Greatly Improves Signal to Noise MELVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 15 –Nikon Instruments, Inc. (www.nikoninstruments.com) today launched VAAS Detection, a new, exclusive confocal imaging method for post acquisition recovery of data normally lost during the course of the experiment. This is accomplished by collecting emission photons that normally are rejected by the emission side pinhole, […]

Strengthening the Research and Education Network Heidelberg, Germany. Microscope designer Leica Microsystems and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) signed a corporate partnership agreement today whereby Leica Microsystems becomes a founder partner of the EMBL Advanced Training Centre scheduled to be completed in September 2009. Besides its financial involvement, the company will provide EMBL with […]

Asylum Research and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have released a detailed 24-page monograph explaining the theory, functionality and applications of Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM). Electromechanical coupling is one of the fundamental natural mechanisms underlying the function of many inorganic and macromolecular materials and is ubiquitous in biological systems. The emergence of ferroelectric and multiferroic […]

Carl Zeiss introduces the LSM 700 / mat laser scanning microscope for materials research. It allows very precise, 3-dimensional imaging of surfaces. The combination of fluorescence and reflection techniques enables high-precision examination of semiconductors, metal, glass and polymers with high information content. The integrated detection of fluorescence signals on and in the materials provides additional […]

New Product Line Offers Researchers Enhanced Functionality for Wide-Field Imaging Wetzlar, Germany / Sunnyvale, CA, USA. Leica Microsystems and MDS Analytical Technologies today announced the launch of Leica MM AF imaging systems, a product line that combines Leica’s industry-leading microscopy and MDS Analytical Technologies’ latest MetaMorph® software, to provide researchers with a more comprehensive range […]

ISSAQUAH, Wash., Dec. 13 — Applied Precision(R), Inc. a leading provider of imaging, measurement, and analysis systems for the life sciences industries announced today that it will introduce a new imaging system at the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) annual conference with twice the resolution of traditional microscopes. The DeltaVision|OMX(TM) system is based on […]

Nikon Instruments Europe and JEOL have announced an agreement that appoints Nikon as the official European distributor of the innovative NeoScope benchtop SEM (scanning electron microscope). Whether used by trained electron microscopists as a compact screening instrument, or by lab technicians seeking a higher resolution alternative to the light microscope, the NeoScope will help accelerate […]