The Rosalind Franklin Institute, a new national centre for interdisciplinary science, announces its first capital investment today. The namesake of the institute, the pioneering X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, was one of the key figures in the discovery of the structure of DNA, and used a technique with roots in physics and technology to transform life […]

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 […]

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 […]

MANNHEIM, Germany — Park Systems, world-leading manufacturer of Atomic Force Microscopes celebrated the grand opening of their European Headquarters on February 6, 2018 in Mannheim, Germany.  The new office will serve as a central European AFM research facility, providing technical sales and service with a fully equipped Atomic Force Microscopy Nanoscience Lab on site. The ceremony was attended by many […]

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 […]

(Santa Barbara, CA)  Oxford Instruments Asylum Research announces their development of an interferometric displacement sensor (IDS) that provides a direct measure of AFM cantilever displacement. The IDS interfaces the existing optical system of the Asylum Research Cypher AFM with an external laser Doppler vibrometer. It does not replace the standard laser and detector; rather, it provides a complementary detection […]

JEOL UK are proud to announce that the Scottish Cryo-EM consortium has chosen the JEOL JEM-Z300FSC CRYO ARM™ 300 as their preferred automated Cryo Transmission Electron Microscope (Cryo-TEM) for the Scottish Centre for Macromolecular Imaging (SCMI). The SCMI consortium led by the MRC Centre for Virus Research (CVR) at The University of Glasgow, selected JEOL […]

Schrödinger Cryo-EM Initiative (SCI) brings together a broad network of renowned Cryo-EM centers to develop novel therapeutics using Schrödinger’s drug discovery platform New York, NY - Schrödinger, a world-leading provider of molecular simulations and drug discovery software solutions dedicated to revolutionizing drug discovery through advanced computational methods, today announced the launch of Schrödinger Cryo-EM Initiative […]

The highest-quality, easiest to use and most reliable Ion Milling tools worldwide Nanoscience Instruments is proud to partner with Technoorg Linda, expanding their world-class line of sample preparation tools used for transmission and scanning electron microscopy into the United States and Canada. For more than 15 years, Nanoscience Instruments has provided advanced instruments and applications […]