Fluorescence microscope
hideA fluorescence microscope (colloquially synonymous with epifluorescent microscope) is a light microscope used to study properties of organic or inorganic substances using the phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence instead of, or in addition to, reflection and absorption.
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News tagged with fluorescence microscopy
Nanoparticles Image Breast Cancer
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Current methods of detecting breast cancer suffer from low sensitivity, limited spatial resolution, or the need to use complicated and expensive radioisotope-based technologies. A new report from investigators at the Emory-Georgia ...
A guide to the invisible: Doubling the fluorescence microscopy resolution (w/Video)
May 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A crucial tool in the evolution of scientific capability in bioscience, the fluorescence microscope has allowed a generation of scientists to study the properties of proteins inside cells. Yet as human capacity ...
'Silver nanoparticle' microscope may shed new light on cancer, bone diseases
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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In a finding that could help speed the understanding of diseases ranging from cancer to osteoporosis, researchers in Utah are reporting development of a new microscope technique that uses “silver nanoparticle” mirrors to ...
Fluorescent proteins illuminating biomedical research
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Jan 25, 2009 |
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Remarkable new tools that spotlight individual cellular molecules are transforming biomedical research. Scientists at the Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have ...
Seeing the unseen with 'super-resolution' fluorescence microscopy
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Thanks to a new "super-resolution" fluorescence microscopy technique, Harvard University researchers have succeeded in resolving the features of cells as miniscule as 20-30 nanometers (nm), an order of magnitude smaller than ...
