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    Detectors & Imaging

    CMOS cameras have use with most microscopes

    LFW Staff
    June 26, 2024
    Back-illuminated Kinetix22 CMOS camera models have a 22 mm field of view and 96% quantum efficiency.
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Crystal ribcage opens black box of a functioning lung to optical imaging

    Rohin Banerji
    June 14, 2024
    A transparent ‘crystal’ ribcage enables first real-time, high-resolution optical imaging of a functioning lung from whole organ down to single-cell scales.
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    Bio&Life Sciences

    Ultramicrotome instrument works with fluorescence data

    LFW Staff
    May 21, 2024
    The UC Enuity Ultramicrotome is a microsectioning instrument that produces thin or ultra-thin sections for electron microscope (EM) sample preparation.
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    Executive Forum

    LED illumination systems continue transition into science and industry

    Antonio Castelo
    May 8, 2024
    In this Q&A, CoolLED managing director Jake Davies chats with EPIC’s technology manager for biomedical and lasers.
    (Image credit: Lingyan Shi/UC San Diego Bioengineering)
    Bio&Life Sciences

    PRM-SRS microscopy platform distinguishes specific lipid types

    Justine Murphy
    May 7, 2024
    A Raman microscopy-based imaging approach could crack the long-elusive code of lipids, their subtypes, and the key roles they play in human health, aging, and disease.
    Detectors & Imaging

    CMOS camera images low-light signals for extended time periods

    LFW Staff
    Jan. 13, 2024
    The Retiga E9 scientific camera features a 9 Mpixel CMOS sensor.
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    Bio&Life Sciences

    Next-level virus detection via WIDE-MIP microscopy

    Justine Murphy
    Dec. 4, 2023
    Rapid and accurate detection of a virus can quite literally make the difference between life and death. With this in mind, researchers created a mid-infrared photothermal microscope...
    Bio&Life Sciences

    FLIM camera system features a SPAD detector

    LFW Staff
    Nov. 27, 2023
    LIFA vTAU is a camera-based system for fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM), particularly live cell applications, with up to 100 lifetime images/sec.
    FIGURE 3. 4D image of a dividing cell that was detected by Aivia in a feedback loop with LAS X from Leica Microsystems.
    Bio&Life Sciences

    How AI and other microscopy advances answer complex life science questions

    Luciano Lucas
    Nov. 7, 2023
    Microscopy enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) will improve life sciences research and development across key therapeutic categories. Promising developments include autonomous...