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Microscope with Mobile Stage Moves According to Bacterium's Movement

When it comes to swimming, the bodies of some bacteria are more than just dead weight, according to new research from Brown University.

22 Jul 2014

New Computational Method to Rapidly Track 3-D Movements of Cells

Recent advances in imaging technology are transforming how scientists see the cellular universe, showing the form and movement of once grainy and blurred structures in stunning detail.

21 Jul 2014

New Report on Global and Chinese Surgical Microscope Industry

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global and Chinese Surgical Microscope Industry Report 2014" report to their offering.

18 Jul 2014

Aberration-Corrected Transmission Electron Microscope Cuts Sheets of Graphene into Ribbons

Graphene, a material that consists of a lattice of carbon atoms, one atom thick, is widely touted as being the most electrically conductive material ever studied. However, not all graphene is the same. With so few atoms comprising the entirety of the material, the arrangement of each one has an impact on its overall function.

17 Jul 2014

Bruker’s Inspire SPM Infrared System Provides High Resolution Nanochemical and Nanomechanical Property Maps

Bruker today announced the release of Inspire™, the first integrated scanning probe microscopy (SPM) infrared system for 10-nanometer spatial resolution in chemical and materials property mapping.

From Bruker 11 Jul 2014

TESCAN Delivers LYRA FIB-SEM Workstation to University of New Hampshire

TESCAN, a leading global supplier of scanning electron microscopes and focused ion beam workstations has delivered a LYRA FIB-SEM workstation to UNH’s University Instrumentation Center, a facility dedicated to the advancement of research.

From TESCAN Group 4 Jul 2014

Increased Autophagy Directly Related to Improved Cell Survival

Deep inside the brains of people with dementia and Lou Gehrig's disease, globs of abnormal protein gum up the inner workings of brain cells – dooming them to an early death.

4 Jul 2014

Researchers Grow Plants in Fluorescence Microscopes to View Root Development in 3D

Growing plants in a microscope is helping scientists to view roots developing in 3D and in real time. "With the growth conditions under our control, we can explore how roots respond to different environmental conditions", says Professor Ernst Stelzer (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany). "This could help plant breeders to select crops which are more resistant to drought or flooding."

4 Jul 2014

Addition of Water Molecules Leads to Increase in Distance Between Graphite Oxide Layers

Physicists from Umeå University and Humboldt University in Berlin have solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for half a century. They show with the help of powerful microscopes that the distance between graphite oxide layers gradually increases when water molecules are added. That is because the surface of graphite oxide is not flat, but varies in thickness with "hills" and "valleys" of nanosize. The new findings are published in the scientific journal Nano Letters.

1 Jul 2014

Scanning Probe Microscopy Provides Valuable Insight into Domain Wall Nanophysics

Ferroelectric materials like barium titanate, a ceramic used in capacitors, are essential to many electronic devices. Typical ferroelectric materials develop features called domain walls with unusual properties – such as lines of electrical conduction completely different from the surrounding material. These properties are technologically useful but poorly understood.

11 Jun 2014