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Smartphone Microscope Enables Fluorescent Imaging of Single Nanoparticles and Viruses

Scientists are reporting an advance in smartphone-based imaging that could help physicians in far-flung and resource-limited locations monitor how well treatments for infections are working by detecting, for the first time, individual viruses. Their study on the light-weight device, which converts the phone into a powerful mini-microscope, appears in the journal ACS Nano.

From American Chemical Society 26 Sep 2013

Scientists Use NMR Spectroscopic Method to Study Intermolecular NOEs in Ionic Liquids

Hardly a spectroscopic method boasts so many different applications as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, better known as "NMR". The approach of NMR spectroscopy is based on monitoring the so-called nuclear spin, namely the angular momentum of atoms, or, more precisely: the magnetic moment associated with them.

25 Sep 2013

Advances in Camera Technology Improve Single-Particle Cryoelectron Microscopy

If you keep up with biology, you’ve probably seen those colorful images in which the atom-by-atom structure of a protein is portrayed by a tangle of ribbons. For the past couple of decades, scientists have been hard at work deriving these structures, which provide clues as to what proteins do.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 20 Sep 2013

Nanolane Launch the Latest Generation of their Sarfus Mapping Stations for Label-Free Nanoscale Imaging

Nanolane offers its new generation of Sarfus Mapping stations, label-free analytical instruments for real-time sample characterization at nanoscale (down to 0.1nm or 1ng/cm²).

From NANOLANE 17 Sep 2013

Caliber I.D. Welcomes European Guideline on Usage of Confocal Microscopy in Dermatology

Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics, formerly Lucid, Inc., welcomes the recent update to the Guideline on Basal Cell Carcinoma published by the European Dermatology Forum.

17 Sep 2013

Smartphone Imaging System Detects Nanoparticles

Your smartphone now can see what the naked eye cannot: A single virus and bits of material less than one-thousandth of the width of a human hair.

17 Sep 2013

Spider Silk Coated With Carbon Nanotubes Conducts Electricity

Eden Steven, a physicist at Florida State University’s MagLab facility, discovered that simple methods can result in surprising and environmentally friendly high-tech outcomes during his experiments with spider silk and carbon nanotubes, the results of which are now published in the online research journal Nature Communications.

16 Sep 2013

Researchers Explore the Microworld Using Haptic Optical Tweezers

What if you could reach through a microscope to touch and feel the microscopic structures under the lens? In a breakthrough that may usher in a new era in the exploration of the worlds that are a million times smaller than human beings, researchers at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France have unveiled a new technique that allows microscope users to manipulate samples using a technology known as "haptic optical tweezers."

16 Sep 2013

Bruker Acquires Pioneer of Multiphoton Fluorescence Microscopy, Prairie Technologies

Bruker Corporation today announced that it has acquired Prairie Technologies, Inc. (Prairie), a provider of life science fluorescence microscopy products. The acquisition strengthens Bruker’s position in life science markets, adding to the Bruker Nano Surfaces Division’s existing life science atomic force microscopy (Bio-AFM) systems.

From Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology 13 Sep 2013

Piezosystem Jena Announce PZ300 Z-Axis Stage for Advanced Microscopy

The accuracy and speed of probe positioning is a critical and important value for microscopy techniques such as laser scanning microscopy, or other techniques including fluorescent, super resolution, or image processing.

From Piezosystem Jena GmbH 12 Sep 2013