New general manager at Oxford Instruments WITec in Ulm

18-Dec-2024 - The next era has begun at Oxford Instruments WITec, where Dr. Benjamin Tordoff is leading the Raman imaging microscopy pioneers after taking over from the company's founders. Dr. Benjamin Tordoff joined Oxford Instruments WITec this summer, though the company and its exceptional technology that ...

New method for measuring luminescence lifetime offers breakthrough in scientific imaging

Ac­cel­er­at­ing the pace of dis­cov­ery in sci­ence and in­dustry

22-Oct-2024 - Re­search­ers at the Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Leib­niz-In­sti­tute for Baltic Sea Re­search and Uni­versity of Copen­ha­gen in­tro­duce an in­nov­at­ive ap­proach to im­age lu­min­es­cence life­times. This simple ap­proach uses read­ily-avail­able cost-ef­fect­ive ...

Cost-effective modular system for optical imaging from the 3D printer

Like building with Lego bricks

14-Oct-2024 - Making modern microscopy and spectroscopy methods accessible to as many users as possible - Prof. Thorben Cordes and his doctoral student Gabriel G. Moya Muñoz have dedicated themselves to this goal. Cordes joined the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) at TU Dortmund University as ...

Tracking Depression

Molecular probe specifically detects serotonin in fluorescence imaging

10-Sep-2024 - Serotonin in depression is highly relevant in diagnosis, treatment, and drug development. To better study this area, a Chinese team has now developed a fluorescent probe for imaging processes that is highly sensitive and selective toward serotonin. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, they also ...

Data-efficient foundation model for biomarker detection

Artificial intelligence for clinical pathology: A new multi-task approach

04-Sep-2024 - The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems shows promise in medicine, where they can be used to detect diseases earlier, improve treatments, and ease staff workloads. But their performance depends on how well the AI is trained. A new multi-task approach to training AI makes it possible to ...

WITec Honors Scientists with 2024 Paper Awards

The prizes for exceptional scientific publications go to researchers in Great Britain, the Netherlands and South Korea.

30-Aug-2024 - Scientists from Great Britain, the Netherlands and South Korea have been recognized with 2024 WITec Paper Awards for their work in cellular biology, biomineralization, and single-photon emitting materials, respectively. The awards highlight three of the many outstanding entries that include data ...

Scientists adapt astronomy method to unblur microscopy images

New method to generate clearer images of thick biological samples

14-Jun-2024 - Astronomers figured out long ago how to make the images their telescopes capture of far-away galaxies clearer and sharper. By using techniques that measure how light is distorted by the atmosphere, they can apply corrections to cancel out aberrations. Microscopists have been adapting these ...

Rechargeable nanotorch

Afterglow luminescence imaging tracks cell-based microrobots in real time

16-Apr-2024 - An afterglow luminescent nanoprobe opens up new possibilities for imaging living cells. As a research team reports in the journal Angewandte Chemie, their new “nanotorch” can continue to luminesce for over ten days after a single excitation. This allows the routes taken through the body by ...

Spiky insight: How red blood cells deform

Holotomographic microscopy

07-Feb-2024 - Empa researchers have observed living red blood cells transforming into spiky "echinocytes" in real time when treated with high concentrations of ibuprofen using holotomographic microscopy and displayed them in 3D renderings. Blood is indeed "a juice of rarest quality." What the poet and natural ...

Visibly more movement: researchers develop new microscope for immune cells

High-throughput analysis of drug substances: 60 times faster than conventional microscopes

13-Dec-2023 - Immune cells fight infectious agents, for example, or search for developing cancers. To do this, they constantly migrate through the tissues of our body. In the wrong place, however, immune cells such as neutrophil granulocytes can also cause damage: If these white blood cells infiltrate tumors, ...