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KAIST Researchers Propose New Piezoelectric ZnO/AlN Stacked Layers for Flexible Nanogenerators

Today, we’re surrounded by a variety of electronic devices that are moving increasingly closer to us – we can attach and wear them, or even implant electronics inside our bodies.

14 Jan 2015

NeuroInDx Releases UnipicK Universal Cell Collection and Tissue Microdissection System

NeuroInDx, Inc. is proud to announce the release of the highly anticipated UnipicKTM, a universal cell collection and tissue microdissection system.

14 Jan 2015

EMSL’s HAADF STEM Microscopy Reveals Bacterium and Nearly Nano-Geothite

Daniel Kaplan and Peter Jaffe’s earlier research on uranium contaminated wetlands used EMSL’s helium ion microscopy in the Quiet Wing to image biogenic nano-iron oxides oriented along a root recovered from a wetland plant from the Savannah River Site.

26 Dec 2014

Physico-Chemical Formulation and Microfluidics Help Develop 3d Metamaterials

Metamaterials have extraordinary properties when it comes to diverting and controlling waves, especially sound and light: for instance, they can make an object invisible, or increase the resolving power of a lens.

23 Dec 2014

Graphene Could Reduce Cost, Complications Involved in X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is one of the most sensitive and informative surface analysis techniques available. However, XPS requires a high vacuum to operate, which makes analyzing materials in liquid and gaseous environments difficult.

23 Dec 2014

ZEISS Creates Surgical Microscope with Integrated Intraoperative OCT

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared RESCAN 700 for sale in the United States, bringing to U.S. ophthalmologists an emerging technology that aims to overcome the trouble surgeons may have in seeing certain anatomical details during eye surgery.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 23 Dec 2014

Atomic Force Microscopy Etches Nanoscale Patterns on Conductive Polymers

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have successfully carved out nanoscale designs on polymer surfaces using atomic force microscopy (AFM).

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 18 Dec 2014

Lens-Free Microscope Detects Cancer with the Same Accuracy as Expensive Optical Microscopes

UCLA researchers have developed a lens-free microscope that can be used to detect the presence of cancer or other cell-level abnormalities with the same accuracy as larger and more expensive optical microscopes.

18 Dec 2014

Compact Device Enables Smartphone to Image and Size Single DNA Molecules

Fluorescence microscopes use technology that enables them to accomplish tasks not easy to achieve with normal light microscopes, including imaging DNA molecules to detect and diagnose cancer, nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, and drug resistance in infectious diseases.

18 Dec 2014

HHMI Researchers Win First Prize in 2014 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition

A team of researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus has won first prize in the 2014 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, widely recognized as the world’s foremost showcase for outstanding images and movies of life science subjects captured through light microscopes. Fernando Amat, Philipp Keller, and William Lemon were awarded the prize for their video that captures the early development of a fruit fly embryo.

17 Dec 2014