News tagged with laser microscope


Neuroscientists discover long-term potentiation in the olfactory bulb

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Ben W. Strowbridge, Ph.D, associate professor of Neuroscience and Physiology/Biophysics, and Yuan Gao, a Ph.D. student in the neurosciences program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, are the first to discover ...


Diagnosing skin cancer without a biopsy

Diagnosing skin cancer without a biopsy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent Montana State University master's graduate is working with doctors at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee to build a handheld laser microscope that could someday reduce the number ...





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Looking at neurons from all sides

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 27, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (29) | comments 0

A new technique that marries a fast-moving laser beam with a special microscope that look at tissues in different optical planes will enable scientists to get a three-dimensional view of neurons or nerve cells as they interact, ...


Hold that tissue: Allergy help may be on the way

Hold that tissue: Allergy help may be on the way

Chemistry /

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It isn’t beach weather in most of the United States right now, but it’s never too early to be thinking about spring and summer. Unfortunately, for people with allergies, today’s daydreams can turn into nightmares ...


Destroying amyloid proteins with lasers

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created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have found that a technique used to visualize amyloid fibers in the laboratory might have the potential to destroy them in the clinic. The technique involves zapping the fluorescently-tagged fibers with a laser, ...


Handheld laser microscope to help diagnose skin cancer without a biopsy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recent Montana State University master's graduate is working with doctors at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee to build a handheld laser microscope that could someday reduce the number of biopsies needed to diagnose ...


World's only ultrafast electron microscope takes 4-D 'movies' of molecules

Chemistry /

created Dec 24, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (38) | comments 0

A unique electron microscope that can help create four-dimensional “movies” of molecules may hold the answers to research questions in a number of fields including chemistry, biology, and physics, according to an article ...


Study identifies new way to biopsy brain tumors in real time

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new miniature, hand-held microscope may allow more precise removal of brain tumors and an easier recognition of tumor locations during surgery.


Sandia to Demonstrate Hyperspectral Confocal Fluorescence Microscope

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Sandia National Laboratories will demonstrate a new hyperspectral confocal fluorescence microscope Friday, Aug. 8 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. MDT in Bldg. 897 on Kirtland Air Force Base. This patent-protected and patent-pending technology ...


Using high-precision laser tweezers to juggle cells

Using high-precision laser tweezers to juggle cells

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed a new method to study single cells while exposing them to controlled environmental changes. The unique method, where a set of laser tweezers ...


'Silver nanoparticle' microscope may shed new light on cancer, bone diseases

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...


Mobile microscopes illuminate the brain

Mobile microscopes illuminate the brain

Biology / Other

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a rats' head, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, have found a way to ...



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