Sentences with phrase «lightest microscope for»

«Lens - free fluorescent microscope: FlatScope may be the world's tiniest, lightest microscope for biological applications and beyond.»

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The shape - changing lens could potentially offer the same focusing capability as multiple moving lenses in a single stationary lens, which would make for smaller and lighter cameras and microscopes.

Because of its amplification, the resonator can improve the performance of cameras looking for tiny wisps of light, such as those used in microscopes.

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.

Under the microscope, the resulting slices of amygdala lit up like a Christmas tree: green if they had absorbed the extra CREB, red if positive for Arc.

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.

In a recreation of Theodore Engelmann's 1883 experiment, in which he discovered that blue and red light were most favorable for photosynthesis, a skylight in the lobby will admit light that will be refracted by a prism and lenses intended to represent the optics of a microscope.

To test this idea, Szibor's graduate student, Christoph Schubert, tracked pollen counts in his own nose for a year using what he termed a «handkerchief test» — after blowing his nose, he would identify the types of pollen in the mucus using light and scanning electron microscopes.

Under a powerful light microscope, he looked for tiny chips and abrasions on the edges of the arrowheads.

Under a light microscope, Schweitzer saw groups of red circular structures that looked for all the world like red blood cells.

The upper left electron microscope image shows spaghetti - shaped organic polymers now used for organic light - emitting diodes, or OLEDs.

That gives it the ability to direct beams of the light in specific places, making the material useful for microscopes and novel projection systems.

Being able to reach a resolution of tens of nanometers with visible light meant that biological molecules could be observed while still alive, not under the harsh conditions necessary for an electron microscope.

In a traditional microscope for example, the sample is lit with an all - encompassing beam from above.

Kees Weijer of the University of Dundee in Scotland, who studies the migration of cells in chick embryos and slime mold, has been waiting for a light sheet microscope since the EMBL group first publicized its advances.

NO WATER, NO PROBLEM Known as water bears, tardigrades (one seen under a light microscope) are famous for withstanding desiccation.

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.

On September 12, a regional EPA office volunteered to send 30 to 40 electron microscopes to Ground Zero to test bulk dust samples for the presence of asbestos fibers, according to EPA whistle - blower Cate Jenkins, yet the local EPA office declined the offer, opting for the less effective polarized light microscopy testing method instead.

In contrast to the plaques which are typical for the disease discovered by Alois Alzheimer more than 100 years ago, the fibril structure now uncovered can not be directly observed under the light microscope.

State - of - the - art light - sheet and confocal microscopes allow recording of entire embryos in 3D and over time (3D + t) for many hours.

Contact: 508-289-7139; [email protected] WOODS HOLE, Mass. — Using a simple «mirror trick» and not - so - simple computational analysis, scientists affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have considerably improved the speed, efficiency, and resolution of a light - sheet microscope, with broad applications for enhanced imaging of live cells and embryos.

For her 7th birthday, my niece received a very special gift — a compound light microscope with a set of slides.

Sections stained for markers described above were visualized using a Leica DM6000 B upright fluorescence light microscope with motorized Z - focusing.

Services provided by EMBL Heidelberg include the Core Facilities which provide internal users, collaborators and visitors with access to excellent facilities for high - throughput analysis including microarrays, protein production, mass spectrometry, DNA sequencing, advanced light and electron microscopes and chemical genomics.

These tools, however, produce nothing close to the angstrom - level (tenth of a nanometer) resolution of a new type of microscope that uses femtosecond pulses of extreme ultraviolet light (EUV)-- the same wavelength light to be used for sub-10 nanometer semiconductor lithography.]

Light sheet microscopes: Novel imaging toolbox for visualizing life's processes.

For his work on producing an acoustic microscope using sound rather than light in order to form images.

For the visitors, seeing a tiny embryo down a microscope was certainly interesting, but when the fluorescent light was turned on, revealing such things as red - labelled blood flowing through glowing green vessels, the exclamation heard was usually «wow»!

The portfolio also includes LED light sources, image splitters and tools for microscope quality management.

And how they are doing it just might be the semiconductor industry's ticket for extending its use of optical microscopes to measure computer chip features that are approaching 10 nanometers, tiny fractions of the wavelength of light.

Alpha3 is a new generation of light sheet fluorescence microscopes providing unrivaled imaging performance for fixed and live specimen.

Toward this end we have built a mobile phone - mounted light microscope and demonstrated its potential for clinical use by imaging P. falciparum - infected and sickle red blood cells in brightfield and M. tuberculosis - infected sputum samples in fluorescence with LED excitation.

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).

In this case, 10 companies led by Nikon donated approximately $ 2.3 million in microscopes and other devices to a joint QB3 - UCSF School of Medicine facility for light microscopy.

The Core provides training, assistance and access to first - class microscopes for both transmitted light and fluorescence imaging: Four upright microscopes for viewing samples on slides; Two inverted microscopes for viewing living specimens in dishes or flasks.

Lightsheet microscopes that project ultra-thin sheets of excitation light through multiple focal planes of a sample may also be useful for providing fast imaging along with optical sectioning (5).

In addition, three Zeiss Axiovert 200 inverted compound microscopes are available for high resolution phase contrast, differential interference contrast, Hoffmann modulation contrast, and widefield epifluorescence microscopy, as well as digitally enhanced real time and time lapse video microscopy and low light video microscopy.

Concerning SEM study a bone slice, adjacent to that used for light microscopy, was examined using Cambridge 250 Mark 3 scanning electron microscope, working at 20 kV beam voltage.

The electron microscope is an extremely powerful tool for viewing the individual synapses of neurons, at orders of magnitude higher resolution than light microscopy.

One researcher posted a note to say that a 2 gram model would be helpful for recording brain activity in songbirds, which prompted the UCLA team to produce a lighter version of the microscope.

This microscope also has the ability to record a series of time - lapse images, which allows students to observe first - hand, for example, how plants grow towards light and how eggs hatch.

Many older clinical microscopes use filament light sources (generally halogen or tungsten) and are configured for Köhler illumination.

He or she may do a number or special tests, such as blood tests, a urinalysis, examining your cat's skin under a special light, scraping her skin for some cells to examine under a microscope, and / or a skin biopsy.

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is studied because it is easy to grow for an animal, has various visible, heritable traits, and has a giant chromosome in its salivary glands that can be examined under a light microscope.