A Non-Toxic DNA Stain for Super Resolution Microscopy
Scientists from the Échole Polytechnique Fédérale de Laussane (EFPL) have created a new DNA stain that can be used in live cells. The far-red DNA stain, called...
Basic Research
Microscopy
Optical, electron and emerging microscopy methods, and the advances pushing resolution and speed.
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First Ever Direct Image of DNA Structure
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed a technique that allowed them to visualize directly the DNA helix...
Basic Research
cellFRAP: High Speed Live-cell Imaging from Olympus
Olympus presents the cellFRAP, a live cell imaging platform for the in-vivo analysis of dynamic processes by accurate and flexible photomanipulation techniques. cellFRAP´s main feature is...
Equipment
New Imaging Techniques Allow Best Resolution of Living Cells of All Time
Scientists at the Janelia Research Campus at Howard Hughes Medical Institute have developed new imaging methods that vastly improve resolution in structured illumination microscopy (SIM), a very advanced live cell...
Equipment
Bruker Launches the Opterra II™ Multipoint Scanning Confocal Microscope
Bruker has announced the release of the Opterra II™ Multipoint Scanning Confocal Microscope. The Opterra II™ is a high speed, quantitative live-cell miscroscope characterized by low photo-toxicity and...
Equipment
Laboratory Mini-brains Help Understanding Idiopatic Autism
Based on studies on lab-grown cerebral organoids, autism could be linked to an excess of inhibitory neurons. Brain models derived from the skin cells of...
Biomedicine
A Window With a View of a Live Brain
A group of researchers from Johns Hopkins University have found a way to follow brain activity in real time. Through a small window in a...
Basic Research
Hyperlens to Enable Hypermagnification in Optical Microscopy
Scientists at the University of Buffalo are pushing the limits of microscopy with their new hyperlens. Currently in prototype stage, this new hyperlens is developed...
Microscopy