Research team from York uses confocal microscopy from ZEISS to investigate neurodegeneration processes in Parkinson’s disease Customer Story People with Parkinson’s lose control of their muscles, resulting in changes of speech and gait. It is caused by the death of a specific population of dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra – a specific brain area that plays an important role... Read more
April 3, 2019 — Featuring a large specimen chamber and advanced functionalities — Tokyo, Japan, April 3, 2019—Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TSE: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) announced today that it will commence sales of the SU3800 and the oversized SU3900 scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) featuring the ability to accommodate large, heavy specimens, along with advanced functionalities for... Read more
ZEISS supports new EMBL Imaging Centre with solutions for correlative microscopy News A foundation stone ceremony for the new EMBL Imaging Centre, located on the campus of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, took place on 1st April 2019. The new facility will give researchers access to the most modern microscopy technologies... Read more
March 28, 2019 Olympus Corporation today announced the addition of the Alpha3 light sheet microscope to its Life Sciences line of high-quality and high-performance optics products. This announcement is the result of a new partnership with PhaseView, an advanced 3D microscopy and scientific imaging company based out of Paris, France. Combining Olympus’ BX43 upright frame and... Read more
MAHWAH, NJ, March 27, 2019 –EDAX, Inc., a leader in X-ray microanalysis and electron diffraction instrumentation has added a new, faster, low-noise CMOS camera to its Velocity™ EBSD Camera Series. The Velocity™ Super is currently the fastest EBSD camera in the world, offering high-speed EBSD mapping with the highest indexing performance on real-world materials. The... Read more
Appoints Paul Lacouture as a director effective immediately SANTA ROSA, Calif., March 25, 2019 Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, today announced that on March 21, 2019, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) appointed Paul Lacouture as... Read more
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., March 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today issued the following statement related to the recent letter from FDA to health care providers regarding paclitaxel-coated devices: On March 15, the FDA issued a letter to health care providers regarding paclitaxel-coated devices used... Read more
PHILADELPHIA, March 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Pittcon 2019 — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced it has received the Scientists’ Choice Award for the Best New Separations Product of 2018 based on the votes of the global community of SelectScience readers and contributors, as well as special recognition for the... Read more
New Advanced DualBeam Scanning Electron Microscope Designed to Increase Productivity and Accelerate Yield Thermo Scientific Helios 5 DualBeam microscope simplifies semiconductor analysis applications SHANGHAI, March 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Today at Semicon China 2019, Thermo Fisher Scientific unveiled its latest and most advanced focused ion beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM) for nanometer scale materials characterization... Read more