SYNGENE’s latest gel transilluminator is equipped with two banks of LEDs to provide excitation at the mid-blue wavelength of 470nm, making it suitable for use with the latest non-toxic DNA stains. The UltraBright-LED is described as a new generation of…
Category: imaging
A new biomedical picture, every day
WE’VE been watching with interest since the new Biomedical Picture of the Day website went live (in beta testing, strictly speaking) a couple of months ago. Known as BPoD, the site is managed by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC)…
Night flight from orbit: incredible video from the ISS
HANDS up those of you who wanted to be an astronaut, or who still do. Yep, me too. While we wait for our respective national space agencies to finally identify us as the people they really need to send on…
Fastcam delivers high-quality slo-mo
PHOTRON’s new Fastcam SA7 has been designed around the needs of high speed imaging applications such as automobile safety testing, and can record high-resolution video frames at up to 3500 frames per second (fps). Employing a specialist CMOS sensor recording…
Nanoscale measuring with a standard optical microscope
A NOVEL form of microscope slide that can turn any light microscope into a nanometre measuring device has been introduced by Nanolane. The company says its Sarfus Mapping Lite system uses novel ‘Surfs’ in place of conventional glass slides, and…
Automated imaging of DNA, RNA, and protein gels
GEL IMAGING has become a routine and highly automated process in many modern laboratories, helped along by rapid equipment innovation. The latest development from Syngene is a gel imaging system called G:Box F3, which automatically captures and analyses images of…
Measure temperature in a billionth of a second
THE RECORDING of high-speed events has become something of a competition in recent years, as different equipment manufacturers vie for ever faster video frame rates with which to film transient phenomena. Now Specialised Imaging is taking the chase in a…
Control unit manages microscope imaging
THE NEW DS-L3 touchscreen imaging unit from Nikon Instruments can control both a microscope and a camera, presenting images on its 8.4-inch display. The LCD touch panel has a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels, to display images from the…
Camera head makes quality microscope images
THE LATEST offering in Nikon’s Digital Sight range of microscope cameras is the DS-Fi2, delivering 5 megapixel resolution (2560 x 1920 pixels) and frame rates up to 21 fps (frames per second) to film fast-moving microscopic events. This new camera…
How to image 3D cell cultures
A NEW white paper from Reinnervate provides helpful information on making the switch to 3D cell culture using the company’s Alvetex scaffold. The document covers a number of different approaches to the visualisation and growth of cells in 3D, as…