WALTHAM, Mass.– Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, has appointed three new members to its Scientific Advisory Board: Dr. Andrea Califano, Dr. Arnold J. Levine and Dr. Aviv Regev. Dr. Califano is the founding chairman of the department of systems biology at Columbia University, and he currently serves on […]

MOORESTOWN, N.J.– Denton Vacuum, LLC, a leading manufacturer of thin film technology products, has introduced Vitua, the first automated TEM sample preparation system specifically designed and characterized for high resolution rotary shadow casting of large organic molecules. TEM organic molecule imaging presents unique challenges. Small samples, such as DNA or complex proteins, are difficult to […]

JENA/Germany, WASHINGTON D.C./USA — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its first research grants through President Barack Obama’s BRAIN Initiative, including three awards to the University of California, Berkeley, totaling nearly $7.5 million over three years. In addition, a $12 million public-private collaboration between ZEISS and UC Berkeley to support the Berkeley Brain Microscopy […]

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of the NanoTracker™ Optical Tweezers system in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics in the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University. Dr Rosalie Driessen is a post-doctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, a […]

JENA/Germany, Maryland/USA — ZEISS and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus have signed an exclusive license agreement for the commercialization of Bessel beam plane illumination microscopy, also called lattice light sheet microscopy. The fluorescence imaging method was invented by Dr. Eric Betzig, group leader at the Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. […]

CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM — Today, ZEISS launches an automated petrophysical analyzer to provide fully quantitative data for reservoir characterization and exploration studies. The ZEISS Mineralogic Reservoir™ system combines automated mineralogy with the quantification of porosity and organics, and dedicated oil and gas outputs. This complete solution enables the industry to both research potential oil fields […]

Wetzlar, Germany — Leica Microsystems is launching the Leica DMi8 inverted microscope with built-in modularity that can grow and adapt to ever-changing research needs. With this new concept, life scientists can custom-configure an inverted microscope now and upgrade it in the future for applications ranging from basic imaging to advanced fluorescence microscopy. The Leica DMi8 […]

Delft — DELMIC develops and manufactures products which are focused on high performance, user friendly, integrated microscopy solutions. In a collaborative development with electron microscope provider Phenom-World, both companies announce the launch of Delphi, the world’s first integrated correlative tabletop fluorescence and electron microscope at the 18th IMC in Prague. DELMIC and Phenom-World announce Delphi™, […]

HILLSBORO, Ore.– FEI (Nasdaq:FEIC) announced today its new Teneo VS™ scanning electron microscope (SEM), which offers a VolumeScope™ capability for life science applications. The Teneo platform tightly integrates FEI’s latest-generation SEM with VolumeScope, an in-chamber microtome and proprietary analytical software to provide fully-automated, large-volume reconstructions with dramatically improved z-axis resolution. The Teneo VS will be […]

HILLSBORO, Ore.– FEI (Nasdaq:FEIC) announced today the release of the next generation of its industry-leading Helios NanoLab™ DualBeam™. The Helios NanoLab G3 DualBeam extends the Helios family’s leadership position with unmatched image contrast and resolution, while at the same time, adding a new, easy-to-use user interface. The new Helios comes in two different workflow-specific configurations […]