Denmark — Staff and students at schools and universities throughout Denmark are excited about a new facility housing multiple scanning electron microscopes that has opened within Nanoteket, a nanotechnology teaching laboratory at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), near Copenhagen. The laboratory operates in collaboration with the university’s physics department and centre for electron nanoscopy. […]

Belfast, Northern Ireland — Andor Technology Ltd., an Oxford Instruments company and a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, today announced the launch of the DSD2, the very latest confocal in their Revolution series. The Revolution DSD2 is a compact, laser-free confocal module that can be fitted to most fluorescence microscopes, old and […]

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of the NanoWizard® AFM system in the School of Chemistry at Monash University in Australia. Dr Rico Tabor leads the Soft Materials and Colloids Group in the School of Chemistry at Monash University. Research focuses […]

HILLSBORO, Ore. and OXFORDSHIRE, U.K.– FEI (Nasdaq:FEIC) today announced its largest order for Life Sciences — Diamond Light Source, one of the most advanced synchrotron light sources in the world, has ordered two Titan Krios™ cryo transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), a Scios™ DualBeam™ FIB/SEM (focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope) and a Talos™ cryo-TEM. These microscopes […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Inscopix, Inc. (“Inscopix”) today announced the launch of its DECODE (Deciphering Circuit Basis of Disease) Grant Program in response to President Obama’s “all hands on deck” call to action for the BRAIN Initiative. Through the $ 1 Million DECODE Grant Program, Inscopix hopes to bolster extramural research efforts for investigating how […]

Tokyo, Japan — Rigaku Corporation is pleased to announce the release of the SmartLab® 3 system, a highly versatile multipurpose X-ray diffractometer with built-in intelligent guidance. The SmartLab 3 system, which is debuting at the 14th European Powder Diffraction Conference (EPDIC), 15-18 June, in Aarhus, Denmark, offers continued refinement of the ease-of-use features that enabled […]

Berlin (Germany)-– PicoQuant GmbH, specialist in the field of single photon counting applications, will release a super-resolution upgrade to its confocal microscopy system MicroTime 200. The STED (stimulated emission depletion) upgrade will be presented to the public for the first time during a product demonstration at PicoQuant’s 20th International Workshop on “Single Molecule Spectroscopy and […]

EMRS conference Lille, France — Nano-Raman performed with tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), and especially nano-Raman imaging, still has the reputation of being a difficult measurement. Last week, to demonstrate that this can now be performed under regular conditions, the HORIBA team has set up a Raman-AFM system “the XploRA Nano” on a standard optical table […]

Wetzlar, Germany — Leica Microsystems has launched the Leica Application Suite Advanced Fluorescence (LAS AF), the software platform for advanced life science research in widefield and confocal microscopy, in its 4.0 version. With LAS AF researchers can now perform 2D image analysis on multi-channel experiments and fully control the environmental conditions of an experiment. In […]

Phoenix, AZ — The new lines of atomic force microscopes (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopes (STM) are available exclusively from Nanoscience Instruments. The traxAFM and traxSTM systems provide an affordable solution for routine AFM and STM imaging. They are ideally suited for teaching environments where a portable, easy to use, and lower priced system is […]