Confocal.nl receive Dutch Academic Startup award

20-Jun-2019 - Technology innovators in super-resolution microscopy, Amsterdam-based Confocal.nl, have been selected as one of ten winners of the Academic Startup Competition in the Netherlands, an initiative of the Association of Universities (VSNU), the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (AcTI) ...

The secret life of cells – in colour

Lennart Nilsson Award 2011

19-Oct-2011 - The 2011 Lennart Nilsson Award is to be presented to American biologist Nancy Kedersha, who is to receive the prize for her colour pictures showing the inner life of a cell.The panel’s citation reads as follows: “Nancy Kedersha’s colour images open our eyes to the smallest components of life. ...

Cell Receptor Recycling Mechanism Discovery opens up New Class of Therapeutic Targets

25-Mar-2011 - Prof. Manojkumar Puthenveedu of Carnegie Mellon University studies the mechanisms by which membrane trafficking controls and co-ordinates the complex signalling pathways in the brain. Despite the fact that almost all diseases can be traced to a defect in how cells respond to signals, little is ...

New three-dimensional imaging method paves way for several research fields

06-Dec-2006 - A new method for 3D imaging and quantification of biological preparations ten times larger than the limit for the traditional confocal microscope is now being presented by researchers from Umeå University in Sweden in the journal Nature Methods. Traditional biological imaging techniques are ...