Optical microscopy is over 400 years old, and in that time, it has come a long way. There are many variations of microscopes both in the selection of lenses, lighting, and other tricks to allow an ...

Olympus has introduced a 40x silicone oil microscope objective, its latest innovation in silicone immersion microscope optics. The new objective fills out the company’s full line of silicone oil ...

The images obtained from confocal Raman imaging provide information for samples with micron spatial resolution. The images are based on molecular structure and are highly sensitive to small changes in ...

Researchers say that they have found a short-cut to achieving higher resolutions; one that could improve imaging resolutions by up to 80%. Researchers in Canada have demonstrated a new way of ...

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Jan. 5, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IRIS International, Inc. (Nasdaq:IRIS), a leading manufacturer of automated in-vitro diagnostics systems and consumables for use in hospitals and ...

In this interview feature, we catch up with our Editor-in-Chief, Michelle Itano (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA) to discuss her recent experiences at the annual meeting of the ...

WHEN a well-corrected oil-immersion objective is used to examine dust particles mounted in a medium such as Canada balsam, of similar refractive index to the oil, the finer particles will give a very ...