VivaScope(R) Confocal Imager May Eliminate Need for Routine Skin Biopsies for Dermatology Patients
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Many routine surgical biopsies could become a thing of the past as dermatologists may soon be sharing, reviewing and diagnosing noninvasive digital images of skin cells via the Internet, using Lucid Inc.'s VivaNet(TM) telemedicine server and its VivaSco...Studies shed light on preserving fertility among cancer patients
...o long three hours after thawing eggs to initiate fertilization with the sperm, a process necessary to create an embryo. When his research team used confocal microscopy to observe what was happening at a chromosomal level, they found that the structures needed to make the embryo's chromosomes align and divi...SCAN: Delivering Bone Disorder Diagnosis, Fracture Healing
...mart Medical Systems and Technology Team, calls the new technology Scanning confocal Acoustic Navigation (SCAN). He said the objective is to develop a small, mo...th's. The researchers are developing the new technology using scanning confocal acoustic diagnostic imaging for diagnosis and low-intensity pulsed ultrasou...SCAN: Delivering bone disorder diagnosis, fracture healing
...mart Medical Systems and Technology Team, calls the new technology Scanning confocal Acoustic Navigation (SCAN). He said the objective is to develop a small, mo...arth's. The researchers are developing the new technology using scanning confocal acoustic diagnostic imaging for diagnosis and low-intensity pulsed ultrasou...What is the effect of fluoxetine on mast cell?
...roup, fluoxetine + normal control group, depressed model group, saline + depressed model group, and fluoxetine + depressed model group. Laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) immunofluorecence and RT-PCR techniques were used to investigate rMCP-1 expression in gastric antrum. Mast cell morphology was obser...Advanced Imaging Technologies to Limit Breast and GI Biopsy Procedures
...microscopic capabilities for visualizing tissue at the cellular level has decreased the requirement for a biopsy in endoscopic GI procedures. PENTAX's confocal Endomicroscope, for example, enables physicians to examine inner structures at extreme magnifications, in some cases allowing for diagnosis without th...Mayo Clinic estimates new, tiny, super-sensitive probe could cut colon polyp removal in half
...robe so sensitive that it can tell if a cell in the colon is becoming cancerous or not. They specifically found that the system, known as probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE), was 90 percent accurate in identifying benign or harmless polyps in patients. With further tweaking, the researchers beli...Sullivan wins NSF Career Award for research on therapeutic drug carriers
...al cues within the cell's nucleus, the materials are pre-programmed to "trigger," resulting in the partial release and activation of the cargo DNA. confocal fluorescence microscopy and cryo-transmission electron microscopy will be used to investigate what happens to the materials once they are introduced t...Virtual biopsy can tell whether colon polyp is benign without removal, Mayo researchers say
...noscopies are done, say researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. Investigators have found that technology known as a high resolution confocal endomicroscopy probe system can determine whether a colon polyp is benign (not precancerous) - without having to remove it for examination by a pathol...New Clinical Studies Confirm Mauna Kea Technologies' Cellvizio(R) GI in Range of Procedures
...ria for optimizing Cellvizio(R) GI performance. The UEGW meeting is taking place in Paris October 27th - 31st . Cellvizio(R) GI is the first and only confocal endomicroscopy instrument that is compatible with all endoscopes and allows real-time, dynamic microscopic imaging of the entire GI tract at 12 frames...Corneal Confocal Microscope ConfoScan 3
Description: The world standard in corneal diagnostics. Precise Display of Corneal Layers like endothelium, descemet's membrane, stroma, Bowman's membrane and epithelial layers. Accurate Analysis of Corneal Components. Broad Applications in Surgery and Pathology. As in optical pachymetry, post-surgery interface...Confoscan 3 Corneal Confocal Microscope
Description: Precise display of corneal layers: endothelium, descemet's membrane, stroma, bowman's membrane, epithelial layers. Accurate analysis of corneal components: endothelial cells, stromal keratocytes, nerve fibres, basal & superficial cells. Broad applications in surgery and pathology: optical pachymetr...GT-CAPTURE for Nikon microscopes with camera port
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Description:... Features Inexpensive --High resolution alternative to manual camera, video, pathology imaging system, color fluorescence imaging system and confocal microscopy Fast and Simple-to-Use --Easy integrated into most commercial microscopes; image acquisition with a single press of button; no menus or...Heidelberg Retina Flowmeter (HRF)
Description:...em for Two-Dimensional Mapping of the Ocular Perfusion The Heidelberg Retina Flowmeter uniquely merges two sophisticated measurement techniques, confocal laser scanning and laser Doppler flowmetry, to a new kind of instrument that provides non-invasive two-dimensional mapping of the retinal micro-circul...Researchers capture bacterial infection on film
...el organism, injecting fluorescently tagged bacteria into the embryos and observing their interaction with the insect's immune system using time-lapse confocal microscopy. The researchers can also tag individual bacterial proteins to follow their movement and determine their specific roles in the infection...DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009
...n, stability, and other functional properties of platinum nanostructures compared with those achieved by existing methods. Sandia's Hyperspectral confocal Fluorescence Microscope System - This system rapidly finds all emitting fluorescence species of an image, determining their relative concentrations wi...New data on the breakdown of the KRas protein
...rganelles responsible for breaking down proteins; this breakdown pathway was unknown in the case of KRas. Thanks to videomicroscopy techniques using a confocal microscope and the fluorescence, resonance energy transfer (FRET) technique, the researchers have observed how the protein is brought inside the cell ...Penn researchers demonstrate a new model for drug discovery with a fluorescent anesthetic
...cence could be used to discover new anesthetics. This provides a unique fluorescence assay for compound screening and anesthetic discovery. Using confocal microscopy to image the distribution of the protein, the team found that 1-AMA localizes largely in the brain and olfactory regions, unlike some gener...Researchers develop flow sensors based on hair structures of blind cavefish
...ion and microorganism growth. Before the research team began synthesizing the gel-like material in the laboratory, they used optical microscopy and confocal fluorescence microscopy to determine the size, shape and properties of real cavefish cupula. One type of cupula they found was cylindrical-shaped, wit...Diabetes researcher gets $5M boost
...rsity of Manchester in England - who will receive this test, called corneal confocal microscopy, to see the value in tracking the condition in this way." Dia...ts, patients would receive a drop of anaesthetic in the eye, then a corneal confocal microscope would capture a 20 second "movie" of their eye for analysis. ...When under attack, plants can signal microbial friends for help
...fense response provided by the beneficial microorganisms. Czymmek captured the definitive proof using a state-of-the-art LSM 510 DUO laser scanning confocal microscope in UD's Bio-Imaging Center. UD is among only a few universities that own one of these million-dollar instruments. "A plant is a challeng...W.M. Keck Foundation grant funds reproductive science research
...ents in the mouse germ cells. No existing microscope can do this. Furthermore, the movement and flux of these ions will be tracked in live cells using confocal microscopy. New fluorescent "nanosensors" will be developed specifically for these studies. The work lies at the interface of reproductive science,...UCLA 'world summit' to explore ancient life on Earth, and beyond
...udes Raman spectroscopy, a technique that allows scientists to see the molecular and chemical structure of ancient microorganisms in three dimensions; confocal microscopy, which uses a focused laser beam to make the organic walls of the fossils fluoresce, and enables scientists to take images inside living ce...Nikon Instruments Introduces Exclusive VAAS Detector Imaging Method for Confocal Microscopy
Unique Technology Greatly Improves Signal to Noise MELVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Nikon Instruments, Inc. ( www.nikoninstruments.com ) today launched VAAS Detection, a new, exclusive confocal imaging method for post acquisition recovery of data normally lost during the course of...Lucid's VivaScope(R) Reflective Confocal Microscope Approved for Sale in China
ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- China's State Food and Drug Administration has approved the sale of the pioneering Lucid VivaScope(R) reflective confocal microscope in the Peoples Republic of China, said Jay Eastman, CEO of Lucid, a Rochester, New York-based medical device and inform...Nikon Instruments Launches Fully-Automated A1 Confocal Laser Microscope Series
Innovative Hardware and Software Enable Total System Integration with the Nikon Ti Inverted Microscope System to Provide Advanced System Flexibility and Performance MELVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Nikon Instruments, Inc. (http://www.nikoninstruments.com ) to...DNA Damage and Repair - Quantification of Sub-Cellular Events Using Automated Confocal Imaging
Introduction Oxidative stress, radiation and other external insults have been shown to damage DNA molecules in cells derived from organisms as diverse as bacteria, yeast, drosophila, rodents and man (Friedberg et al. 2005). The presence of DNA damage m...Rapid heating prepares energy-saving zeolite for greater role in industrial separations
...optical microscopy technique called laser scanning confocal microscopy to examine the grain boundaries in conv... and in zeolite membranes that have undergone RTP. confocal microscopy is used widely in biology research to t...ect features within the membrane," says Snyder. confocal microscopy enabled Tsapatsis' group to understand ...New Report Just Published: World Endoscopy Systems Market Report
...d Toward Integrated Operating Room Suites II-2 confocal Microendoscopes II-3 Capsule Endoscopy II-3 ... Fetoscopy II-36 Bariatric Surgery II-36 confocal Laser Endoscopy II-36 Interventional Pulmonolo...r Resectoscope II-44 Optiscan Imaging Launches confocal Microscope II-44 Oridion Medical Introduces Mi...Digital Eclipse C1 Plus Modular Confocal System from Nikon
Description: The Eclipse C1 Plus is a modular confocal system that gives you the highest-quality digital imaging with an ultra-compact and lightweight design. The improved scan head optics of the C1 Plusboost optical performance to 400nm andits bi-directional scanner provides faster image acquisition.The system...BD CARV II Confocal Imager from BD Biosciences - Bioimaging
Description: The BD CARV II Confocal Imager delivers high resolution CCD confocal imaging in an easy to use and cost effective optical package that fits on your existing microscope. High speed multi-point confocal scanning, combined with high quantum efficiency CCD cameras, minimizes photobleaching and allows r...TCSPC Confocal Microscope from HORIBA Jobin Yvon
Description: Time-resolved microscopy is the ultimate tool for investigating dynamic events in cells and subcellular structures. Its applications previously have been limited at wavelengths longer than 370 nm because microscope optics do not transmit in the deep UV. HORIBA Jobin Yvon, the leader in fluorescence...BD Pathway 435 confocal bioimager from BD Biosciences - Bioimaging
Description: The BD Pathway 435 is an affordable, compact benchtop imager compatible with multiwell plates and slides, providing a broad array of automated imaging capabilities. The system rapidly acquires high-resolution images with high-performance laser autofocus, true confocal optics, flexible computer-cont...LS Series Microarray Laser Scanner from Tecan
Description:...ners can read more than 320 slides without user intervention. Flexible - on slide size, array format and dye selection. The instrument has both confocal and non-confocal modes. This enables reading of flexible substrate formats, such as thick substrates, liquid, gel, or even encapsulated chips. The sca...The DNAscope IV & V from Biomedical Photometrics Inc.
Description:... and image processing that deliver excellent quality microarray images. The DNAscope V is a high quality microarray scanner that is based on patented confocal laser imaging technology for optimal background rejection and spatial resolution. The DNAscope V images two fluorophores in sequence using a single PM...Fujifilm BAS-5000 from FUJIFILM Life Science
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Description:... FluoroGuard antifade reagent is used to inhibit photobleaching in confocal and standard fluorescence microscopy. The unique formulation effectively suppresses photobleaching in a wide variety of fixed specimens stained or lab...