Highlights

(Image credit: IN-VISION Technologies)
Lasers & Sources

Light engine offers 2K native resolution

June 3, 2024
The HELIOPORA light engine offers resolutions to 300 nm for cybergenetics and optogenetics research.
Bio&Life Sciences

Kinetic plate scanner has use in drug discovery applications

Feb. 7, 2024
Volta’s two-laser optical system contains 462 and 660 nm diode lasers, and offers 96- or 384-well microplate configurations.
Bio&Life Sciences

Image analysis software offers multiplex cell detection

Feb. 1, 2024
Aivia AI image analysis software version 13 is a complete 2-to-5D image visualization, analysis, and interpretation platform.
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

Nov. 7, 2023
Microscopy enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) will improve life sciences research and development across key therapeutic categories. Promising developments include autonomous...
(Courtesy of Gowerlabs)
FIGURE 1. The researchers use LUMO, a wearable, portable, high-density functional NIR imaging device equipped with modular tiles with built-in NIR light sources and detectors.
Bio&Life Sciences

Using near-infrared spectroscopy to help unravel the mysteries of dementia

Sept. 29, 2023
New work by a U.K. team demonstrates a new technique that enables a more detailed view of brain function, which could lead to more accurate and earlier diagnosis of diseases that...
(Courtesy of Arkansas State University/Arkansas Research Alliance)
Arkansas State University uses lasers to measure the physical characteristics of cells with a flow cytometer.
Bio&Life Sciences

Advancements in laser tech impacting flow cytometry

June 19, 2023
Flow cytometry enables rapid and precise analysis of complex samples. At the core of flow cytometry performance lies the light source used for fluorophore excitation, with lasers...
(Courtesy of Anna Maria Reuss, Fabian Voigt)
Detailed image of neurons in a mouse brain, as captured using the Schmidt objectives.
Bio&Life Sciences

Schmidt telescope, scallop eyes transform microscope objectives

May 22, 2023
Drawing inspiration from the uniqueness of scallop eyes, neuroscientists in Switzerland have developed microscope objectives that could make imaging samples simpler, cheaper, ...
(Courtesy of Ian Shih, UNC School of Medicine)
FIGURE 1. The experimental fMRI-fiber photometry platform could offer a deeper understanding of the dynamic properties of brain states and their relationship to behaviors.
Bio&Life Sciences

Spectrally resolved fiber photometry system enables exploring the brain’s networks

April 24, 2023
An optical fiber-based platform may lead to brain network-based treatment regimens for neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders.
Horiba Scientific
Test & Measurement

Fluorescence analyzers add pulse processing algorithm feature

April 8, 2023
The XGT-9000 Pro and XGT-9000 Expert fluorescence analyzers have improved detection systems and a patented pulse processing algorithm.