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 […]

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek makes it even easier for laboratories to transition into automated digital microscopy with the new, fully integrated Lionheart™ LX Automated Microscope. The affordable and compact Lionheart LX offers high contrast brightfield, color brightfield and fluorescence imaging with up to 100x air and oil immersion magnification. Users can automatically image microplates, slides, cell culture […]

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 […]

BioAxial, a developer and seller of Conical Diffraction Microscopy (CODIM) technology, has been granted a US patent covering ‘black fluorophore’ technology, which will be included in the second generation of CODIM products. Black fluorophore is an important component of ‘dark tracking’ technology, which belongs to a new family of super resolution techs in microscopy that […]

New technology will be included in the second generation of CODIM products, providing access to single molecule tracking with true nanoscopic molecular resolution Paris, France – BioAxial, a key player in live cell super resolution microscopy, today announces that it has been granted a US patent covering ‘black fluorophore’, a pivotal component of ‘dark tracking’ technology. […]

Two new Olympus TruResolution objectives for multiphoton laser scanning microscopes deliver an industry-first automatic spherical aberration compensation function that automatically compensates for Z-shifts when operating the correction collar. This function automatically finds the best collar setting based on measured image contrast for clear, bright imaging. The objectives were developed jointly with the RIKEN Brain Science […]

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 […]

Improved optical sectioning delivers higher resolution without the need to acquire a z-stack JENA/Germany. At Neuroscience 2017, a new imaging mode for the ZEISS LSM 8 family with Airyscan has been introduced. Their unique 32-channel GaAsP array detector captures more spatial information than traditional confocal microscopes. The new 2D Superresolution mode now uses this additional […]

CSSB and Leica Microsystems establish an Advanced light and Fluorescence Microscopy (ALFM) facility and integrated Cryo-Imaging solutions Hamburg. Leica Microsystems are pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB). The partnership, being announced to coincide with the Opening Symposium of the CSSB, will see major collaboration between the two […]

New CFI90 20XC Glyc objective lens combines large field-of-view, high numerical aperture and long working distance for high-resolution, deep-tissue imaging MELVILLE, N.Y. — Nikon Instruments Inc., an industry leader in advanced optical instruments, is debuting the CFI90 20XC Glyc, a cutting-edge microscope objective capable of deep imaging of whole, cleared tissues, at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual […]