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Researchers Employ CryoTEM to Image Dendrimer-Based Vesicles

One of the defining features of cells is their membranes. Each cell’s repository of DNA and protein-making machinery must be kept stable and secure from invaders and toxins. Scientists have attempted to replicate these properties, but, despite decades of research, even the most basic membrane structures, known as vesicles, still face many problems when made in the lab. They are difficult to make at consistent sizes and lack the stability of their biological counterparts.

11 Jun 2014

Daylight Solutions Receives CLEO 2014 Grand Prize for Spero Laser-Based Infrared Microscopy Platform

Daylight Solutions, Inc., a leading manufacturer of molecular detection and imaging solutions in the mid-infrared, has received the CLEO 2014 Innovation Award Grand Prize for Spero, the world’s first laser-based infrared microscopy platform.

From Daylight Solutions Inc. 10 Jun 2014

MTSU Researchers Optimize Focused Ion Beam–Scanning Electron Microscopy for Plant Cell Imaging

Plant cells are beginning to look a lot different to Dr. A. Bruce Cahoon and his colleagues at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). They've adopted a new approach that combines the precision of an ion beam with the imaging capabilities of an electron beam to zoom in at micron-level resolution.

10 Jun 2014

Advanced Electron Microscopy Helps Determine Accurate Structural Map of Mediator in Cells

A team led by researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has used advanced electron microscopy techniques to determine the first accurate structural map of Mediator, one of the largest and most complex "molecular machines" in cells.

6 Jun 2014

Eye-Popping Microscope Image Exhibit of Cellular Life

Arriving today, an exotic world, both foreign and as close as their own skin, will greet travelers moving through Washington Dulles International Airport, as “Life: Magnified,” an exhibit of 46 eye-popping color images of life on the cellular level, opens in the airport’s Gateway Gallery in Concourse C. “Life: Magnified” is a collaborative project of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (Airports Authority) with support from ZEISS.

5 Jun 2014

Nanoscale Study of Visual Degradation in Da Vinci's Self-Portrait

One of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpieces, drawn in red chalk on paper during the early 1500s and widely believed to be a self-portrait, is in extremely poor condition. Centuries of exposure to humid storage conditions or a closed environment has led to widespread and localized yellowing and browning of the paper, which is reducing the contrast between the colors of chalk and paper and substantially diminishing the visibility of the drawing.

4 Jun 2014

Low-Energy Electron Microscopy Helps Visualize Desorption of Oxygen Molecules from a Silver Surface

In a recent study involving researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, the desorption of oxygen molecules from a silver surface was successfully visualized for the first time. The effects account for the shortcomings of conventional models of desorption.

29 May 2014

Space-saving, Cost-effective Microscope for Time-Lapse Observation of Cell Cultures

Biologists and doctors rely heavily on incubators and microscopes. Now the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT has come up with a novel solution that combines the functions of both these tools in a compact and extremely small-scale system.

26 May 2014

Researchers Image Microtubule Assembly and Disassembly at Unprecedented Resolution

A pathway to the design of even more effective versions of the powerful anti-cancer drug Taxol has been opened with the most detailed look ever at the assembly and disassembly of microtubules, tiny fibers of tubulin protein that form the cytoskeletons of living cells and play a crucial role in mitosis.

23 May 2014

Daylight Solutions Delivers Spero Microscope to Dr. Rebekah Drezek’s Laboratory at Rice University

Daylight Solutions, Inc., a leading manufacturer of molecular detection and imaging solutions in the mid-infrared, today announced delivery of the world’s first commercially available laser-based infrared microscopy platform.

From Daylight Solutions Inc. 21 May 2014

Microscopy News

Researchers Employ CryoTEM to Image Dendrimer-Based Vesicles

Daylight Solutions Receives CLEO 2014 Grand Prize for Spero Laser-Based Infrared Microscopy Platform

MTSU Researchers Optimize Focused Ion Beam–Scanning Electron Microscopy for Plant Cell Imaging

Advanced Electron Microscopy Helps Determine Accurate Structural Map of Mediator in Cells

Eye-Popping Microscope Image Exhibit of Cellular Life

Nanoscale Study of Visual Degradation in Da Vinci's Self-Portrait

Low-Energy Electron Microscopy Helps Visualize Desorption of Oxygen Molecules from a Silver Surface

Space-saving, Cost-effective Microscope for Time-Lapse Observation of Cell Cultures

Researchers Image Microtubule Assembly and Disassembly at Unprecedented Resolution

Daylight Solutions Delivers Spero Microscope to Dr. Rebekah Drezek’s Laboratory at Rice University

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