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New CTO Strengthens PicoQuant’s R&D Department BERLIN, March 20, 2019 — As PicoQuant GmbH continues its steady growth, the company has broadened its management structures and installed a new chief of technology officer to strengthen its research and development department.
Microrotors Trap Tiny Objects Without Exposing Them to Light EXETER, England, March 18, 2019 — A team of researchers from the Universities of Glasgow, Bristol, and Exeter have developed a technique that optically traps microscopic objects by using hydrodynamic forces to exert nanoscale-precision control over aqueous particles, without...
Microscopic Robots Made from Silicon, Powered by Light PHILADELPHIA, March 12, 2019 — Using novel nanofabrication techniques, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University have built micro-robots made from silicon and powered by solar cells. One million functional microscopic robots can be produced from a...
Strain Engineering Enables Precise Placement of Single Photon Emitters in Semiconductors ROME, N.Y., and WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2019 — Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have developed a way to directly write quantum light sources, which emit a single photon of light at a time, into monolayer semiconductors such as...
New Fluorogenic Method Can Simultaneously Detect Aggregation of Two Proteins in Live Cells STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Feb. 15, 2019 — A new method uses fluorescence to detect potentially disease-causing forms of proteins as they misfold and unravel due to stress or mutations. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) and the University of Washington re-engineered...
Optical Microscopy System Simultaneously Observes and Stimulates Multiple Living Cells in 3D KOBE, Japan, Jan. 30, 2019 — A new optical microscope uses holographic techniques to stimulate multiple cells simultaneously and monitor cell activity after stimulation. Developed by researchers at Kobe University and called SIFOM for three-dimensional (3D) Stimulation and...
Max Planck Florida Becomes a ZEISS Labs@Location Partner JUPITER, Fla., Jan. 21, 2019 — The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) and the Germany-based microscopy company ZEISS announced a “labs@location” partnership agreement on Jan. 17. As a “labs@location” partner institution, MPFI will have access to state-of-the-art...
Two Microscopy Techniques Combine for Nanoscale Brain-Wide Optical Imaging ASHBURN, Va., and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 21, 2019 — Scientists from the Eric Betzig lab at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Campus and the Ed Boyden Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) collaborated to develop an imaging technique, ExLLSM, that combines expansion microscopy...
Three-Photon Microscope Reveals All Cortical Layers of Awake Mouse Brain CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 15, 2019 — A new three-photon microscope developed at the Picower Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) can deliver rapid, short, low-power pulses of light capable of reaching deep targets within the brain without causing functional...
Mobile Device Uses Holographic Analysis, Deep Learning to Detect Parasites LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21, 2018 — Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering have developed an inexpensive, portable platform that can detect motile parasites in bodily fluids rapidly. Using the new platform, more than 3 milliliters (ml) of a bodily fluid sample can...
AI System Uses Microscopic Images to Identify Cancer Cell Types OSAKA, Japan, Dec. 19, 2018 — A system based on a convolutional neural network (CNN), developed at Osaka University, has shown that it is able to automatically distinguish between different types of cancer cells. Being able to accurately identify the particular cancer cell types...
Deep Learning Is Used to Recover Objects in Low Light CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 19, 2018 — A new imaging technique, developed by engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), demonstrates that deep neural networks (DNNs) can be used to illuminate transparent features such as biological tissues and cells in images taken with...
Real-Time Imaging Reveals Flexibility of Crystal Surfaces KYOTO, Japan, Dec. 6, 2018 — Images taken using an atomic force microscope have enabled researchers from Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) to observe, for the first time, the flexible and dynamic changes that occur on the surfaces...
Muscle Weakness Measured with Multiphoton Imaging ERLANGEN, Germany, Dec. 3, 2018 — Scientists at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) have engineered an automated, high-precision biomechatronics system into a multiphoton microscope. The system allows isometric calcium ion (Ca2+)-graded force (or passive viscoelasticity...
Leibniz Institute Observes Neuronal Structures with Holography JENA, Germany, Nov. 29, 2018 — Using a multimode optical fiber as thin as a human hair, scientists at the Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology have observed at high resolution the neuronal structures inside deep brain areas of living mice. The researchers drew on holographic...
Quantum Dots Replace Dyes to Stabilize Cell Imaging CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Nov. 6, 2018 — A new molecular probe, based on the fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) technique, uses quantum dots (QDs) instead of fluorescent dyes to illuminate molecules and diseased cells. Developed by a team from the University of Illinois at...
Morgridge Institute to Collaborate with UCSD, Sloan Kettering on NIH 'High-Risk, High-Reward' Project MADISON, Wis., Oct. 25, 2018 — A project to develop a complete cellular blueprint of zebrafish development, headed by Jan Huisken, medical engineering director at the Morgridge Institute for Research, is one of the 2018 winners of the “High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program”...
UC San Diego Launches Nikon Imaging Center SAN DIEGO, Oct. 22, 2018 — The Nikon Imaging Center, a collaborative microscopy center that provides local researchers with access to the latest imaging technologies, has opened at the University of California, San Diego. “UC San Diego’s partnership with Nikon is very...
STORM Pioneer Wins One of Six $3M Breakthrough Prizes SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19, 2018 — The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its sponsors — Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Ma Huateng, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki — announced the recipients of their 2019 prizes on Oct. 17, 2018. The inventor of...
Microscope Images Mouse Embryo Development at the Cellular Level ASHBURN, Va., Oct. 15, 2018 — Researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus developed a new microscope using adaptive light-sheet microscopy techniques to capture mouse development at the single-cell level. The team is making the microscope and...
Ultrafast Camera Takes Trillions of Images per Second in a Single Exposure MONTREAL, Canada, and PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 15, 2018 — Single-shot 10-trillion-frame-per-second compressed, ultrafast photography is now possible with a new camera, developed by a team from Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), in collaboration with researchers at California Institute...
Argonne’s Zaluzec Becomes Microanalysis Society Fellow LEMONT, Ill., Oct. 11, 2018 — Nestor J. Zaluzec, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, has been named an inaugural fellow in the Legends Class of the Microanalysis Society, an award that recognizes his contributions to advanced...
Machine Learning Enables Label-Free Prediction of 3D Images SEATTLE, Sept. 21, 2018 — Scientists at the Allen Institute have used machine learning to develop a label-free tool for predicting 3D fluorescence directly from transmitted-light images. Instead of fluorescence microscopy, the new method uses only black-and-white images...
Microscopy Add-On Enhances Neuronal Image Resolution Under Dim Conditions TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 18, 2018 — A new add-on for laser-scanning microscopes, built from commercially available hardware and open-source software, could improve the quality of 2D and 3D imaging of neuronal activity in the living brain, even under photon-deprived imaging conditions....
Optical Trapping, Raman Spectroscopy Measure Live-cell Interaction NOTTINGHAM, England, and GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 13, 2018 — Using multiple laser beams and Raman spectroscopy, researchers at the Universities of Nottingham and Glasgow have designed and built a new instrument that could help scientists learn more about how infections take hold and how antibiotic-resistant...
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