Unveiling a new era of imaging: Boston University engineers lead breakthrough microscopy techniques

Researchers made significant advancements in the field of vibrational imaging

06-Dec-2023 - When microscopes struggle to pick up faint signals, it’s like trying to spot subtle details in a painting or photograph without your glasses. For researchers, this makes it difficult to catch the small things happening in cells or other materials. In new research, Boston University Moustakas ...

RAYDIAX secures €3.5 million in fresh capital to develop its therapy assistance computed tomography system in the fight against cancer

03-Nov-2023 - RAYDIAX, a spin-off of the STIMULATE research campus/ Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, is developing an image assistance system based on the principles of computed tomography for use in minimally invasive cancer treatments. The company secures €3.5 million in fresh capital to advance the ...

Diagnosing cancer in minutes

Identify tumour margins directly in the surgery room: Refined Laser Systems raises €2.7m

30-Jan-2023 - Refined Laser Systems, a dynamic biophotonics company specialised in pioneering laser systems for SRS-microscopy and quantum technology, today announces a Seed funding round of €2.7 million led by High-Tech Gründerfonds and APEX Ventures, along with NRW.BANK, Onsight Ventures and Papst Venture ...

Bruker announces acquisition of a spin-off from Ghent University

Acquisition expands nuclear molecular imaging portfolio

23-Nov-2021 - Bruker Corporation announced the acquisition of MOLECUBES NV, a dynamic innovator in benchtop preclinical nuclear molecular imaging (NMI) systems. This acquisition strengthens Bruker’s position as a leading NMI solutions provider in preclinical and translational imaging research. The combination ...

Functional drug screenings at a higher throughput

MaxWell Biosystems Completes CHF 4 million Series A Financing Round

18-Dec-2020 - MaxWell Biosystems AG, a spin-off from ETH Zürich founded in 2016 announced the closing of a CHF 4 million Series A financing round to further industrialize and scale-up the production of their consumables, so called multiwell high-density microelectrode array (HD-MEA) plates. Such scale-up will ...

Looking at the good vibes of molecules: a new method for label-free metabolic imaging

09-Jan-2020 - Label-free dynamic detection of biomolecules is a major challenge in live-cell microscopy. The simultaneous visualization of dynamic alterations for classes of metabolites, such as carbohydrates and lipids, was an unmet need in biomedical research. Now, a novel imaging method developed by a ...

AI researchers join forces to develop the 'ImageNet' of generative drug discovery

04-Dec-2018 - Insilico Medicine, an artificial intelligence company developing an end-to-end drug discovery pipeline for age-related diseases, announced an open research collaboration. Researchers are invited to contribute to the new platform MOSES (Molecular Sets), described in the paper titled "Molecular ...

Seeing how cells work as never before

17-Jul-2018 - Yale is adding microscopy that provides an unprecedented view of specimens whose thickness had thwarted close inspection Biological structures exist and function in three dimensions, but the limitations of imaging technology have long meant that scientists could examine only two dimensions in ...

BORN2GROW supports biotech start-up Venneos with its further growth

27-Sep-2017 - Venture capital fund BORN2GROW has invested in Stuttgart-based Venneos GmbH in the current round of series A financing. The start-up is successfully developing and marketing the CAN-Q – a silicon chip-based imaging system for analysing biological cells. “We are thrilled to have BORN2GROW ...

High resolution without particle accelerator

Physicists are first to achieve optical coherence tomography with XUV radiation at laboratory scale

10-Aug-2017 - A visit to the optometrist often involves optical coherence tomography. This imaging process uses infrared radiation to penetrate the layers of the retina and examine it more closely in three dimensions, without having to touch the eye at all. This allows eye specialists to diagnose diseases such ...