May. 04, 2012

Tumor Detection With Photoacoustic Imaging

AlphaScan from Spectra-Physics is a compact integrated optical-parametric oscillator and pump laser that outputs high energies in the near-infrared for photoacoustic imaging, also known as photoacoustic tomography.   moreJan. 20, 2011

To Visualize Neurons of the Deep Brain for Months at a Time

Stanford researchers have developed a new technique that allows them to monitor the tiny branches of neurons in a live brain for months at a time. Neuroscientists will now be able to monitor the microscopic changes that occur over the course of progressive brain disease.
Travel just one millimeter inside the brain and you'll be stepping into the dark.
Standard light microscopes don't allow researchers to look into the interior of the living brain, where memories are formed and diseases such as dementia and cancer can take their toll. moreJan. 20, 2011

To Visualize Neurons of the Deep Brain for Months at a Time

Stanford researchers have developed a new technique that allows them to monitor the tiny branches of neurons in a live brain for months at a time. Neuroscientists will now be able to monitor the microscopic changes that occur over the course of progressive brain disease (see video).
Travel just one millimeter inside the brain and you'll be stepping into the dark. moreFeb. 26, 2010

Cancer Research Facility Opens at UQ

University of Queensland (Australia) researchers will have access to some of the world's leading cancer imaging equipment with of a US-$ 2.5 million facility funded by the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF). The ACRF Cancer Biology Imaging Facility, the most advanced of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, was officially opened by the Governor of Queensland, Her Excellency Dr. Penelope Wensley AO. moreFeb. 15, 2010

Stem Cell Biology

The view of a tumor as an aberrant tissue whose growth and differentiation is sustained by cancer stem cells is now largely accepted for a wide variety of cancer diseases. Cancer stem cells, as their physiological counterparts, possess the ability to control their fate by maintaining themselves in a quiescent and undifferentiated state or self-renewing to geometrically expand their number. moreNov. 03, 2009

From Molecules to Tissues

Modern optical microscopy has always represented an indispensable tool for biomedical research. One of the most relevant and successful transformations of the modern microscope is the ability to parallel an instrumental modification with the development of new assays for the determination of functional parameters. Instrument performances have been consequently optimized for the analysis of extremely heterogeneous targets, ranging from single molecules up to living organisms.
moreNov. 01, 2005

Olympus: UIS2 objectives

Olympus: UIS2 objectives. Laser microdissection and laser micromanipulation of small organisms, cells or subcellular structures is a growing market need and requires objectives with excellent optical performance. To facilitate this kind of work, the new range of UIS2 objectives from Olympus has been introduced. This range features new options with extended transmission in UV and IR, long working distance and high numerical aperture (NA). more