Sentences with phrase «microscope technology»

So we got DNA technology on one versus the antigen - based under the microscope technology on the other.

In our work, we have overcome this limitation with novel microscope technology that can observe the activity of the fly's entire brain forty times faster than previous techniques.

With our unique robotic microscope technology, can we identify the major determinants of cell fate during normal development of stem cells and in neurodegenerative disease?

The project will be based in Prof. Dan Davis's laboratory in The University of Manchester and involves using super-resolution fluorescence microscope technologies (PALM, STORM, STED and others) to study fundamental aspects of molecular recognition by human Natural Killer cells.

Not exact matches

Amongst other things it talks about how microscope and telescope technology has changed, how nuclear power works, and lasers, although I had to turn this page over quickly as pictures of eyes freak me out a bit.

Like a biologist's microscope or a geographer's GPS, assistive technologies allow scientists to extend their capabilities.

«Our technology combines the properties of superconductivity with tiny structures that can only be seen with a microscope.

The technology may one day lead to new imaging instruments and microscopes for use in medicine and scientific research, such as devices for detecting early signs of skin cancer or early visual cues for food spoilage.

«To be able to carry a microscope in your pocket is a neat technology,» Veeraraghavan said.

By analysing the artefacts with a camera and microscopes, they were able to compare the manufacture techniques and wear to previous discoveries and to attempts to replicate this technology in the laboratory.

Francis Everitt describes MICROSCOPE as «a room - temperature version of STEP» because it doesn't involve complex cryogenic technology.

Scientists and photographers used tools ranging from traditional cameras to X-rays to million - dollar microscopes to create the art in «Images From Science 2,» on view at the Rochester Institute of Technology beginning October 11.

Veeraraghavan said SAVI leans on work by the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley, which developed the Fourier ptychography technique that allows microscopes to resolve images beyond the physical limitations of their optics.

By combining chip technology and microfluidics, Yang has created an inexpensive miniature microscope.

Such microscopes have sparked a revolution in cryo - electron microscopy, for which the developers of the technology won the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

He is hoping to have the application — which would enable the on - chip microscope to plug into an iPhone or a handset running Google's Android mobile operating system, for example — ready this summer and to begin field - testing the technology as soon as possible.

With technology like the electron microscope, the science behind artifact analysis has become more thorough and evidence - based.

Zheng adapted super-resolution image - processing technology to create an on - chip microscope — a sub-pixel resolving optofluidic microscope (SROFM)-- made up of a complementary metal - oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor connected via a USB port to a computer loaded with image - enhancing software.

He says it has taken this long to unlock the potential of NCC because the technology to explore its properties, such as electron scanning microscopes, only emerged in the last decade or so.

Assistive technologies for scientists with disabilities are an extension of the technologies that assist all scientists, like a biologist's microscope or a geographer's global positioning system.

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.

«This technology is potentially revolutionary because it works in the visible spectrum, which means it has the capacity to replace lenses in all kinds of devices, from microscopes to camera, to displays and cell phones,» said Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering and senior author of the paper.

The technology the researchers used to tackle this problem consists of a wide - field microscope that emits blue light, which penetrates about 50 to 150 microns below the skin and is reflected back to a video camera.

New technology that transforms a cell phone into a powerful, mobile microscope could significantly improve malaria diagnoses and treatment in developing countries that often lack the resources to address the life - threatening disease, says a Texas A&M University biomedical engineer who has created the tool.

In their new study, they adapted DNA - PAINT technology to microscopes that are widespread among cell biology laboratories, called confocal microscopes, and that are used by researchers to image whole cells and thicker tissues at lower resolution.

At the Vienna University of Technology, it has now been possible to selectively switch individual oxygen molecules sitting on a titanium oxide surface between a non-reactive to a reactive state using a special force microscope.

Using a high - powered electron microscope, Nweeia and researchers from the Smithsonian Institution and the National Institute of Standards and Technology discovered that the narwhal's tusk is riddled with millions of tiny tunnels, each about 1/100 the width of a human hair.

At the meeting, attendees discussed four broad goals for the proposed Observatory: expanding access to large scale electron microscopes; providing fabrication facilities for new, nanosized electrode systems; developing new optical and magnetic resonance brain activity imaging technologies; and finding new ways to analyze and store the staggering amount of data detailed brain studies can produce.

Examining thin sections of the teeth under a microscope and using technology at the McMaster - based Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy, the researchers were able to show that anomalies formed in the dentin layers during years when victims failed to get enough Vitamin D to fully mineralize the structures that form dentin and bone.

Resolution was slightly higher with the optical microscope, but the researchers reported resolution of two microns with the smartphone technology.

While conventional tabletop microscopes shine light through the sample from above, the Shih lab's technology launches the light from the side of the slide, which is about one millimeter thick.

Results from testing water samples for pathogens including Giardia lamblia and Cyrptosporidium parvum using the technology were compared with results obtained using a tabletop optical microscope.

A research group lead by University of Tsukuba Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences International Tenure Track Assistant Professor Norio Takeshita (who holds a concurrent post as Group Leader of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Department of Applied Microbiology) has succeeded in using a super-resolution microscope to visualize the mechanism by which cell polarity is maintained.

Purdue University doctoral student Yang Xu, lead author of a new research paper on «topological insulators,» an emerging class of materials that could make possible «spintronic» devices and practical quantum computers far more powerful than today's technologies, is shown here inspecting devices made from topological insulators under a microscope before electrical measurements.

When Keren Shemtov - Yona, DDS, a dental researcher at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, examined 100 discarded dental implants under a scanning electron microscope, she found that more than 60 percent of the implants had cracks and other flaws.

She also wants to help Salk maintain and expand its access to cutting - edge technologies such as new advances in light microscopes.»

Since then, STEM imaging technology has advanced at a rate not seen since the 1930s, when the resolution of optical microscopes doubled almost every year.

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.

The key technologies that enabled this finding included a molecular sensor that the group developed to track activity of TrkB, and microscopes that allowed them to visualize a single spine in the area of living mouse brain tissue, all in real time.

He hopes eventually to bring the price down to $ 1 million, which would be comparable to the cost of a high - technology electron microscope.

For starters, researchers must first pull off the effect without the use of atomic force microscopes, which aren't a practical addition to disk drive technology.

Researchers have discovered that dense ensembles of quantum spins can be created in diamond with high resolution using an electron microscopes, paving the way for enhanced sensors and resources for quantum technologies.

«The microscope was tested for its spatial resolution, the presence of chromatic aberrations, and long - term stability using a fine test pattern called a Siemens star and a photon energy of approximately 10 keV,» explains Professor Kazuto Yamauchi of Osaka University's Center for Ultra-Precision Science and Technology.

Using a light microscope, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich watched fluorescently tagged vaccinia virus — a more benign cousin of smallpox virus — migrate toward target cells.

From photographs of movement that's too fast for the human eye to perceive, to atomic force microscope images of atomic bonds, pictures created by new technologies have often catalyzed scientific discovery.

Immunofluorescence microscopy was performed using a Zeiss Axioplan fluorescence microscope (Carl Zeiss, Inc., Thornwood, NY) equipped with a 100 - W Hg lamp and narrow band pass excitation filters (Chroma Technology Corp., Brattleboro, VT).

The molecular bonds in a Pentacene molecule, by IBM Research (2009) Taken with an atomic force microscope, which grew out of the technologies pioneered by Bennig and Rohrer's STM, this is the first image ever taken that shows molecular bonds.

IDMIT is an infrastructure for preclinical research in infectious diseases and immunology which is certified ISO9001 and which includes 1) A large animal facility with capacity to host NHP in BSL2 and BSL3 containment, 2) State - of - the - art laboratories for cell biology, immunology, molecular biology, flow cytometry and mass cytometry (CyTof), cell - sorting and confocal microscopy in BSL3 containment; 3) A biological resources centre with high storage capacity; 4) Highly innovative technologies for in vivo imaging of large animals in BSL2 and BSL3 containment, including a two - photon microscope, a PET - CT facility, and several optic based technologies (fibered endo - microscopy, near infra - red imaging).

In imaging, the Institute advanced researcher's capabilities with new technology, such as powerful laser microscopes.

Peter O'Toole heads the Imaging and Cytometry Labs within the Technology Facility at the University of York which includes an array of confocal microscopes, flow cytometers and electron microscopes.