Analytical instrumentation > Microscopy

Excelitas X-Cite XYLIS LED illumination system

07 June, 2023

The X-Cite XYLIS from Excelitas is a white light LED illumination system for advanced fluorescence microscopy applications.


MBF Bioscience Vesalius spinning disk confocal microscope

05 June, 2023

Vesalius, by MBF Bioscience, is a versatile confocal microscope system for fast, large-scale, multichannel 2D and 3D whole-slide imaging of slide-mounted specimens.


Nanoparticles help microscopes go extreme-ultraviolet

11 May, 2023

ANU technology uses carefully engineered nanoparticles to increase the frequency of light that cameras and other technologies see by up to seven times.


Wearable microscopes enable spinal cord imaging in mice

13 April, 2023

The tiny wearable microscopes offer high-resolution, high-contrast and multicolour imaging in real time across previously inaccessible regions of the spinal cord.


Smart microscopy — where to take the picture?

14 March, 2023

In order to take high-resolution microscopic images of living biological material, you need to know exactly where to point the microscope.


CoolLED pE-400 controllable white light microscopy illumination system

22 February, 2023

CoolLED's pE-400 is a simple, bright white light microscopy illumination system and a controllable replacement for mercury and metal halide lamps, making it a good choice for clean, green labs.


JEOL JIB-PS500i FIB-SEM system

07 February, 2023

JEOL's JIB-PS500i is a combined system with an FIB (focused ion beam) that is designed to process with high accuracy and an SEM (scanning electron microscope) with high resolution.


A new approach to quantum microscopy

15 November, 2022

A prototype quantum microscope, demonstrating high-resolution sensitivity, has been developed by an Australian research team.


Asbestos testing under the microscope

02 November, 2022

Professor Akio Kuroda has been developing testing techniques to accurately pinpoint the presence of asbestos.


Schott KL fibre-optic light sources

01 November, 2022

Schott's KL fibre-optic light sources with LED or halogen illumination are widely used in stereo microscopy for a broad range of applications. The series demonstrates its full strength in situations where uniform light quality is crucial.


Holographic microscope can see through the skull, image the brain

14 October, 2022

The microscope is reportedly capable of seeing through the intact skull and enabling high-resolution 3D imaging of the neural network within a living mouse brain.


pco.panda 4.2 MP back-illuminated sCMOS camera for low-light imaging

01 October, 2022

The latest pco.panda 4.2 MP back-illuminated (bi) camera can provide a quantum efficiency of up to 95%, making it suitable for demanding lighting conditions in microscopy and life science applications — even without active cooling.


Tomocube HT-X1 high-resolution holotomography microscope

01 September, 2022

The Tomocube HT-X1 optical microscope uses incoherent light to generate holographic images of unlabelled live cells.


Laser scanning microscope for fast cancer cell detection

02 May, 2022

Using a combination of laser scanning microscopy and fluorescent tumour markers, doctors can detect any remaining cancer cells immediately after an operation.


Rotating laser light illuminates living cells

22 April, 2022

Researchers have found a way to make the smallest objects clearly visible without fluorescence, thanks to a process called 'rotating coherent scattering'.


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