Imaging

Microscopes, detectors and imaging software, from super-resolution optics to the pipelines that turn images into data.

102 articles

SIM image of platelets. Professor Dan Cutler, UCL

Super-Resolution Microscopy to Diagnose Rare Platelet Disorder

A team of scientists led by a research group at University College London have developed a super-resolution microscopy method to diagnose a rare bleeding disease. The...

Biomedicine
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Leica and the Biomedical Center (BMC) in Munich Open Bioimaging Center

Leica Microsystems and the Biomedical Center (BMC) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich have announced the opening of the Leica Bioimaging Center, a core facility at the...

Equipment

10 Times More Memory Than Previously Calculated

Researchers from Salk Institute and the University of Austin, Texas have discovered that the memory capacity of the brain is 10 times higher than previously estimated....

Imaging
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Recurrent Depression Linked to Amygdala Disconnection from Emotional Network

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a disconnection in an emotion-processing brain network in people with major depression. The findings will help...

Imaging
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Cryo-Electron Microscopy Is the Method of the Year 2015

Nature Methods has named Cryo-Electron Microscopy the method of the year 2015. This structural technique, which was always a step behind nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and...

Equipment
single protein hologram structure

Electron Holography Microscope Obtains First Image of a Single Protein

  Researchers from the University of Zurich have obtained the first image ever of a single protein. The molecule was fixed on a graphene sheet...

Basic Research

Free Trial of oCelloScope, a 3D Scanner for Microbiological Analysis

Phillips is offering a free 3-week trial of oCelloScope, an automated 3D optical scanner of biological samples. The new instrument measures bacterial growth much faster than...

Equipment

Brain MRI Reveals a Potential Biomarker for Depression

A team of scientists from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) have recently published a study that correlates depression risk with a...

Biomedicine