Microscopy

Optical, electron and emerging microscopy methods, and the advances pushing resolution and speed.

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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...

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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

Nikon Presents Two New Inverted Microscopes

Nikon will present two new inverted microscopes at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting. The ECLIPSE Ts2 and ECLIPSE Ts2R models are intended for routine...

Equipment

New Quantitative Pathology Imaging System Vectra 3

Perkin Elmer has released a new system for quantitative pathology imaging research, the Vectra 3. The automated, high-throughput device has seven color multiplexing and visualization capabilities...

Cancer Research

The Ultimate Neuronal Activity Sensor is Here

I made my PhD in the field of neuroscience, more specifically in neuroimaging. But contrary to what the term might suggest to many we didn’t...

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3D Localization of Single Molecules Improved to Nanoscale

University researchers W. E. Moerner, E. Betzig and S. W. Hell won the 2014 Nobel Prize for their development of super-resolution microscopy, a technique that breaks the...

Basic Research

3D Nanosculptures Created with Electron Microscopy

Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a method to design 3D sculptures at atomic level with an electron microscope. The crystalline structures size...

3D printing

A smartphone accessory to detect sickle cell disease

A team of scientists from four top American universities have developed a smartphone attachment that allows to detect sickle cell disease. The 3D printed device uses...

3D printing