Tag Archives: microscopy

Delft University Researchers Combine Nanotechnology and Biology to Improve Cell Imaging

(IN BRIEF) Researchers at Delft University of Technology have shown for the first time that nano-antennas can enhance the fluorescence of proteins in living human and other mammalian cells, making voltage-sensitive proteins up to six times brighter and around ten … Read the full press release

Cancer Researchers Uncover New Details of cGAS Pathway Activation in Damaged Cells

(IN BRIEF) Researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London have developed a new fluorescent genetic reporter that allows scientists to observe activation of the immune sensor cGAS in individual cells, revealing fresh insights into how the body’s anti-cancer immune … Read the full press release

Empa Young Scientist Fellowship Supports Research Into Nanoscale Fractures in Thin-Film Electronics

(IN BRIEF) Empa researcher Vivek Devulapalli has received a two-year Empa Young Scientist Fellowship for MOSAIC, a research project investigating how nanometre-thin multilayer films made from metal oxides crack, delaminate and deform at the atomic scale. Thin films are essential … Read the full press release

University of Twente Researchers Reveal How Moiré Nanopatterns Trap Light Energy

(IN BRIEF) Physicists at the University of Twente, in collaboration with Utrecht University, the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics and Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science, have shown for the first time where a nanoscale moiré pattern can trap … Read the full press release

ZEISS Planetariums Brings Science, Technology and Emotion to Fulldome Audiences

(IN BRIEF) ZEISS Planetariums has received international recognition for “ZEISS – Into the Infinite,” an eight-minute fulldome and VR experience developed with Munich-based creative agency visuarte. The immersive show won multiple honours at the WorldMediaFestivals 2026 in Berlin, including the … Read the full press release

Amolf Scientist Wins ZonMW Off Road Grant to Unravel Immune System’s Molecular Brakes

(IN BRIEF) Amolf researcher Megan Farrell has received the Off Road grant from ZonMW to study how the immune system’s inhibitory receptors act as brakes to prevent autoimmune responses. Using cutting-edge microscopy, she will track these receptors in real time … Read the full press release

TUM to Launch €69 Million Connectomics Center in Garching for Brain Network Mapping

IN BRIEF) TUM will launch the Center for Structural and Functional Connectomics (CSFC) on its Garching campus—a €69 million initiative approved by the GWK—to comprehensively map neural networks and accelerate research into multiple sclerosis, neuro-oncology, and developmental neurological disorders. Spanning … Read the full press release

ZEISS Axioscan 7 Spatial Biology Revolutionizes Clinical Research with Scalable Workflow Automation

(IN BRIEF) ZEISS has launched the Axioscan 7 spatial biology, a high-performance slide scanner designed for clinical research applications in spatial biology. The system supports high-throughput, automated imaging for multiplex immunofluorescence (mIF) assays, providing researchers with faster, more efficient, and … Read the full press release

Hidden Life on Ice: Antarctic Algal Ecosystem Unveiled, Accelerating Glacial Melt

(IN BRIEF) A team of scientists, led by Dr. Matthew Davey of SAMS, has discovered an expansive ecosystem on the Robert Island ice cap in Antarctica, dominated by photosynthetic algae. This ecosystem, which covers up to 20% of the mapped … Read the full press release

ZEISS’ new digital microscope for the first time enables all-in-one focus in real time

(PRESS RELEASE) OBERKOCHEN, 25-Jan-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — ZEISS announces the launch of a new innovative digital microscope ZEISS Visioner 1. Thanks to its Micro-mirror Array Lens System (MALS™), ZEISS Visioner 1, for the first time enables all-in-one focus in real time. … Read the full press release

ZEISS’s Xradia Versa and Context microCT systems equipped with Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox to improve the throughput and image quality of 3D image reconstruction

(PRESS RELEASE) OBERKOCHEN, 31-Aug-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — ZEISS, the German optical systems and optoelectronics manufacturer, has announced the introduction of a new Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox, essentially a powerful workstation in combination with ZEISS OptiRecon and ZEISS DeepRecon, to its industry-leading … Read the full press release

ZEISS presented its cloud-based digital microscopy platform at the Microscopy & Microanalysis conference in Baltimore, USA

Experience the cloud-based platform at M&M in Baltimore, booth 624 JENA/Germany, BALTIMORE/USA, 14-Aug-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — ZEISS presents the initial release of its cloud-based digital microscopy platform, known under the name APEER at the Microscopy & Microanalysis conference (M&M) in Baltimore, … Read the full press release