March 2, 2017 Microscopy Product Launch

Oxford Instruments Asylum Research Introduces Its New SurfRider “HQ-Series” of High Quality, Budget-Priced AFM Probes

02 March 2017 Oxford Instruments Asylum Research introduces its new SurfRider “HQ-Series” Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) probes, offering best-in-class performance at budget pricing. HQ probes are high quality silicon probes exclusively manufactured by Asylum and can be used in all commercially-available AFMs. They offer greater ease-of-use, higher quality and improved consistency for repeatable measurements compared... Read more

March 1, 2017 Microscopy

Do you know what phloem and the Münch hypothesis are about?

Long distance transport in plants occurs in sieve tubes of the phloem. The pressure flow hypothesis introduced by Ernst Münch in 1930 describes a mechanism of osmotically generated pressure differentials that are supposed to drive the movement of sugars and other solutes in the phloem, but this hypothesis has long faced major challenges. The key... Read more

February 24, 2017 Microscopy

Webinar: Study Cellular Dynamics with 1 ms precision

By combining optical and electrical simulation with high-pressure freezing it is now possible to capture fast cellular dynamics with millisecond precision. In a webinar on March 29 Dr. Shigeki Watanabe and Dr. Frédéric Leroux will present results of recent studies that demonstrate how this new method can help to resolve controversial questions in neurobiology. The... Read more

February 12, 2017 Microscopy Product Launch

Oxford Instruments Asylum Research Launches Its New Online European AFM Probe Store

14 February 2017 Oxford Instruments Asylum Research has launched its new European Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Probe Store—https://afmProbes.AsylumResearch.eu. The EU Probe Store serves customers in all of Europe, India and the Middle East, offering a complete range of probes for virtually all AFMs. Customers can shop for a wide range of probe models including probes... Read more

February 10, 2017 Microscopy Product Launch

Andor Launches iXon Life for Fluorescence Microscopy – EMCCD Performance at sCMOS Price

10 February 2017 Andor Technology (Andor), an Oxford Instruments company and world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, today announced the launch of the new ultrasensitive iXon Life Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) camera platform, exclusively for fluorescence microscopy. Featuring single photon sensitive, back-illuminated EMCCD technology and overclocked to market leading frame rate performance, iXon... Read more

February 1, 2017 Microscopy Product Launch

Oxford Instruments Asylum Research Announces the New Cypher VRS Video-Rate Atomic Force Microscope

01 February 2017 Oxford Instruments Asylum Research announces the new Cypher VRS Video-Rate AFM, the first and only full-featured video-rate atomic force microscope (AFM). The Cypher VRS sets a new benchmark for speed, enabling high resolution imaging of dynamic events at up to 625 lines/second, corresponding to about 10 frames per second. For comparison, this... Read more

January 30, 2017 Microscopy

Forensics: How digital microscopy helps to gather evidence from hair, fibers, paint, explosives and insects

Hair and fiber evidence obtained from crime scenes [10, 11] are often imaged and analyzed with a microscope [10-13]. The Leica DVM6 digital microscope can provide high quality images of hair or fiber samples under investigation quickly and easily. Images of human and animal hair and fibers in a textile sample taken with the Leica DVM6 are shown. The human... Read more