Light microscopes based on scattering, reflection and absorption, or a combination of these, have been a key enabling technology for the study of objects invisible to our eyes, especially in the field of biology.
Not exact matches
This can be useful for everything from using a simple
light microscope to watch cells divide to using
light -
based techniques to drive genetic and cellular actions.
MCD is diagnosed
based on the characteristic podocyte, elongations of the cell normally too tiny to be seen through a
light microscope.
While they wait for a commercial version to come on the market — the technology has been licensed to Germany -
based Carl Zeiss optics company — biologists must build each
light sheet
microscope themselves.
In confocal
microscopes, optical sectioning of a specimen is
based on discriminating the out - of - focus reflected
light by using a pinhole.
We have now developed a gentle
light - sheet -
based microscope for high - throughput imaging of mouse oocytes and embryos to enable systematic molecular analysis of meiosis and early embryonic mitosis (figure 1).