News tagged with optical microscopy
'Electron vortices' have the potential to increase conventional microscopes' capabilities
(PhysOrg.com) -- Electron microscopes are among the most widely used scientific and medical tools for studying and understanding a wide range of materials, from biological tissue to miniature magnetic devices, ...
Jan 16, 2011 |
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Correcting a trick of the light brings molecules into view
Conventional wisdom holds that optical microscopy can't be used to "see" something as small as an individual molecule. But as it is wont, clever science has once again overturned conventional wisdom. Secretary ...
Jul 14, 2010 |
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Scientists create 3-D models of whole mouse organs (w/ Video)
Yale University engineers have for the first time created 3D models of whole intact mouse organs, a feat they accomplished using fluorescence microscopy. The team reports its findings in the May/June issue ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Researchers use X-ray diffraction microscope to reveal 3-D internal structure of whole cell
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the new technique, researchers were able to identify the 3-D morphology and structure of cellular organelles, including the cell wall, vacuole, endoplasmic reticulum, mitrochondria, granules and nucleolus. ...
Jun 07, 2010 |
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F is for Fluoresence and Fluorine: New dyes for optical nanoscopy
(PhysOrg.com) -- The imaging of living cells at the molecular level was barely a dream twenty years ago. Today, however, this dream is close to becoming reality.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 26, 2010 |
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New imaging technology brings trace chemicals into focus (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Arizona State Univeristy scientist N.J. Tao and his colleagues at the Biodesign Institute have hit on a new, versatile method to significantly improve the detection of trace chemicals important ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 11, 2010 |
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Carbon Based Chips May One Day Replace Silicon Transistors
(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM researchers are hopeful that, over the next decade, silicon-based transistors will be replaced by carbon-based transistors. IBM has already laid out the ground work for carbon-based transistors.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 03, 2010 |
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An easy way to see the world's thinnest material
It's been used to dye the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day. It's been used to find latent blood stains at crime scenes. And now researchers at Northwestern University have used it to examine the thinnest material ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 23, 2009 |
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Nanoimaging in 3-D
(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology shrinks ever smaller, interest in objects and devices on the nanoscale becomes more apparent. However, visualizing these objects in three dimensions comes with special challenges. ...
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Imaging a catalyst one atom at a time
(PhysOrg.com) -- The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 09, 2009 |
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A guide to the invisible: Doubling the fluorescence microscopy resolution (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A crucial tool in the evolution of scientific capability in bioscience, the fluorescence microscope has allowed a generation of scientists to study the properties of proteins inside cells. Yet as human capacity ...
May 06, 2009 |
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Distinguishing Single Cells With Nothing But Light
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a novel optical technique that permits rapid analysis of single human immune cells using only light.
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Seeing the small picture: X-ray nanoprobe pushes observation to ever smaller frontiers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Try to picture putting some atoms under a microscope. Even if you could pick them up, put them on a slide and get them to stay still, you still could not see them with even the most powerful ...
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Optical techniques show continued promise in detecting pancreatic cancer
Optical technology developed by a Northwestern University professor of biomedical engineering has been shown to be effective in detecting the presence of pancreatic cancer through analysis of neighboring tissue in the duodenum, ...
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Super-resolution microscopy takes on a third dimension
The shapes of some of the tiniest cellular structures are coming into sharper focus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus, where scientists have developed a new imaging technology that produces ...
Feb 02, 2009 |
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