The Raman imaging company WITec celebrates its 20 th Anniversary. It was founded in 1997 as a 3-person spin-off from the Physics Department of the University of Ulm and has grown into a company of 60 employees including the Ulm headquarters and its branch offices in Spain, China, Japan, Singapore and the USA. As reflected […]

UC Merced added a powerful new tool to the campus’s Imaging and Microscopy Facility. The newly acquired Zeiss LSM 880 is a state-of-the art laser scanning confocal microscope that represents a huge leap forward for the university’s imaging capabilities. “Within UC Merced, this is by far the most advanced, state-of-the-art light microscope,” School of Engineering Professor Anand Subramaniam said. Subramaniam […]

CFI SR HP Plan Apochromat Lambda S 100XC Sil objective and silicone immersion medium enable superresolution imaging of thick specimens and offers correlative imaging capabilities Nikon Instruments Inc. today unveiled a new silicone immersion objective lens, CFI SR HP Plan Apochromat Lambda S 100XC Sil, for super-resolution and multi-modal imaging. The new silicone immersion objective lens […]

UC Merced added a powerful new tool to the campus’s Imaging and Microscopy Facility. The newly acquired Zeiss LSM 880 is a state-of-the art laser scanning confocal microscope that represents a huge leap forward for the university’s imaging capabilities. “Within UC Merced, this is by far the most advanced, state-of-the-art light microscope,” School of Engineering Professor […]

Lab infrastructure solution ZEISS ZEN 2 core is connecting systems, data and workflows JENA/Germany, STUTTGART/Germany At this year’s Control trade show from 9th to 12th May, ZEISS is presenting a networked lab for quality control and quality assurance. Connected systems, data and workflows enable more efficient collaboration – even across lab boundaries. With the new […]

Successful exit just 1.5 years after the Company’s founding proves investment rationale Heidelberg, Germany – EMBL Ventures today announced that it has sold its portfolio company Luxendo to Bruker (NASDAQ: BRKR). EMBL Ventures was lead investor with LSP in October 2015 when Luxendo was created as a spin-off by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) […]

Patented SPIM Technology Expands Bruker’s Fluorescence Microscopy Portfolio BILLERICA, Mass. — Bruker today announced that it has acquired Luxendo, a privately held spin-off of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) that develops and manufactures proprietary light-sheet fluorescence microscopy instruments. Luxendo’s proprietary single plane illumination microscopy (SPIM) technique significantly reduces sampling times over conventional laser scanning confocal microscopes, while […]

Providing flexible object tracking to evaluate dynamic processes and a simplified GUI with 4K support, Olympus’ cellSens imaging software offers sophisticated solutions to extract more research data and save time in clinical laboratories. Hamburg – Olympus has released version 1.17 of its life science imaging software cellSens. The new cellSens features an automatic object tracking […]

Experience correlative and advanced 3D microscopy OBERKOCHEN/Germany On 24 April 2017 ZEISS opened the new ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center Europe at the Oberkochen site. This is the most comprehensive ZEISS Customer Center including light, electron and X-ray microscopy in a single location: here users from Industry and Academia can try out correlative workflows between the […]

TUCSON, Ariz. — US-based scientific camera designer and manufacturer Photometrics and Netherlands-based microscope system developer Confocal.nl have created a partnership to offer a new sub diffraction-limited confocal microscope system. The Confocal.nl Re-scan Confocal Microscope (RCM) combined with the Photometrics Prime 95B™, the world’s first back-illuminated Scientific CMOS camera, provides an ideal solution for super-resolution imaging. The […]