State-of-the-art facility features the first imaging system of its kind in Saudi Arabia. Wetzlar, Germany / Thuwal, Saudi Arabia: The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Leica Microsystems inaugurated a new Center of Excellence (CoE) for Optical Microscopy on the University’s campus today. With the new center, KAUST and Leica Microsystems embark […]

Justin Mynar, KAUST associate vice president for research and executive director of the Core Labs, speaks during the opening of the KAUST-Leica Center of Excellence in Optical Microscopy on the University’s campus. KAUST and Leica Microsystems inaugurated a new Center of Excellence (CoE) for Optical Microscopy on the University’s campus on March 12. With the new center, […]

TUCSON, Ariz. — US-based scientific camera designer and manufacturer Photometrics, scientific instruments manufacturer Cairn Research and systems developer Mizar Imaging have created a partnership to offer a new, high power, high sensitivity light sheet fluorescence microscopy solution. The MizarTILT light sheet system combined with the Photometrics Prime 95B, the world’s first back-illuminated scientific CMOS camera, provides an […]

Rockland, MA. –  Prior Scientific Instruments, Ltd., a Cambridge based manufacturer of precision optical and mechanical instrumentation is pleased to announce that it has acquired Queensgate Instruments, a division of Elektron Technology.  Queensgate, with its manufacturing based in Torquay, is a leading supplier of high precision nanopositioning systems and sensors. “Queensgate is the premier manufacturer […]

PicoQuant and Ionovation now offer an integrated platform that combines microscopy and force spectroscopy As a joint development, PicoQuant and Ionovation combined time-resolved microscopy and optical tweezers in a single system. Both instruments retain their individual functionalities but can also be used together, thus enabling customers to carry out time-resolved fluorescence microscopy (e.g. fluorescence lifetime […]

Deliver an industry-first automatic spherical aberration compensation function Left: Olympus TruResolution Objective; Right: 3D reconstructed image of mouse in vivo brain (Thy1-YFP-H mouse sensory cortex) acquired using TruResolution objective with auto adjustment function. Image data courtesy of Dr. Hiromu Monai, Dr.Hajime Hirase and Dr. Atsushi Miyawaki, RIKEN BSI-Olympus Collaboration Center For high-res images click here. For video of mouse in vivo brain click here. […]

Scientifica is excited to announce Ed Saint is taking on the role of Sales and Marketing Director. Ed joined Scientifica in 2006 as a university intern, and has been involved in many different functions within the company. This has included marketing, sales and installation right through to business development. Most recently, Ed has been working […]

Designed for in vitro and in vivo experiments that demand video-rate confocal imaging Upright FV3000 microscope configured for electrophysiology WALTHAM, Mass. — Expanding on the successful FLUOVIEW imaging platform, users can now take advantage of the speed and flexibility of the FV3000 confocal laser scanning microscope in two new upright models designed for in vitro and in vivo […]

Imaris 9.1: Another revolution in the visualization of complex microscopy datasets Bitplane, an Oxford Instruments Company and leader in 3D/4D microscopy image visualisation and analysis has recently launched Imaris version 9.1 along with  the newest member of the Imaris family, Imaris Stitcher. Many experiments require viewing an entire organism, organ, or tissue while also resolving […]

First ZEISS ZEN Intellesis solution enables segmentation of correlative microscopy datasets JENA/Germany Today ZEISS announces ZEISS ZEN Intellesis, a new machine learning capability that enables researchers to perform advanced analysis of their imaging samples across multiple microscopy methods. The first algorithmic solution introduced by the ZEISS ZEN Intellesis platform makes integrated, easy to use, powerful […]