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Welcome to the Light Channel of Microscopy & Analysis

The light or optical microscope is the most common type of microscope, using glass lenses to focus beams of visible, infrared and ultraviolet electromagnetic radiation for imaging and compositional analysis at a typical resolution of 0.2 µm. Superresolution or sub-diffraction techniques can now resolve fluorescent objects below 50 nm.

Highlights

Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington DC, USA

Now it its 42nd year, the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting featured thousands of lectures, symposia, workshops and events on innovative neuroscience research. The meeting was attended by over 31,000 scientists.
Click here to read the NEUROSCIENCE blogs and video interviews from M&A Editor Dr Julian Heath who reported from the EXPO which featured over 300 exhibitors.

News & features

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PerkinElmer launches Columbus 2.3 image data storage and analysis system

02 February 2012
PerkinElmer showcased the enhanced Columbus 2.3 Image Data Storage and Analysis System at the High Content Analysis Conference in San Francisco. Researchers in the areas of cancer and stem cells, predictive toxicity, neuroscience and developmental biology can benefit from the updated Columbus system, which enables faster and more powerful high content analysis-based research applications
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Heliotis 3D optical profilers integrate MountainsMap imaging topography software

02 February 2012
MountainsMap software is used to analyze surfaces in accordance with the latest standards and methods. M3 and M3-XL 3D Optical Profilers now integrate Heliotis’ patented and proven smart-pixel CMOS sensor based on parallel optical low-coherence tomography technology, providing high speed measurement (up to 1 million 2D-slices per second) and vertical resolution down to 20 nm
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Olympus Stream V1.7 optimises quality of industrial and materials science images

30 January 2012
Olympus has launched the latest version of its highly successful Olympus Stream software family for industrial and materials science microscopy applications. Building on the renowned functionality of previous iterations, Olympus Stream 1.7 with High Dynamic Range (HDR) enables you to capture perfectly illuminated images, even when high material contrast occurs