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    Depiction of the adaptive sampling scheme, in which a laser beam patterned by a digital micromirror device selectively illuminates neurons and their activity in brain tissue.

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    H&E staining on rat brain coronal slices from all treatment conditions at three days post-injury and four weeks post-injury. Images were taken from frontal cortex, corpus callosum, and choroid plexus (body of the lateral ventricle).
    Justine Murphy
    Nov. 25, 2024
    Photobiomodulation could soon expand its effectiveness beyond tissue repair and pain management into the brain.
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    Andor Technology
    Nov. 21, 2024
    The Marana 4.2B-6 back-illuminated 4.2-Mpixel scientific CMOS (sCMOS) model now offers a low noise mode with read noise of 1.0 e-.
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    The Mateo FL artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital fluorescence microscope performs cell culture checks in advanced research applications.
    (Sample courtesy of Aoi Gohma and Atsushi Miyawaki, RIKEN CBS-EVIDENT Open Collaboration Center)
    Akira Saito
    Sept. 11, 2024
    Near-infrared (NIR) imaging can help mitigate the challenges of using visible light as an excitation source for biological research.
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    HORIBA Scientific
    Sept. 8, 2024
    InverTau is a fully software-controlled platform that mounts to the side port of an inverted fluorescence microscope to add fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) capability.

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    Justine Murphy
    Aug. 9, 2024
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    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.
    Justine Murphy
    Sept. 29, 2023
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    FIGURE 1. Schematic of neurochemical sensing in vivo with FOPECs.
    Sally Cole Johnson
    July 20, 2023
    Researchers in China develop fiber-optic tool based on engineered cells (FOPECs) for real-time sensing of neurochemicals at high specificity in a variety of animal species and...
    Evident
    July 20, 2023
    The SLIDEVIEW DX VS-M1 whole-slide imaging system is a digital pathology solution that delivers microscope-quality slide images onscreen.
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    FIGURE 1. An optomechanical design of the SMURF two-photon microscope.
    Justine Murphy
    July 13, 2023
    An approach to imaging electrical activity deep in the brain makes neurological studies more effective and less invasive.