TU Wien develops a microscope for ultra-sensitive samples

How can you produce the best possible image in a microscope without destroying the sample? A new trick enables gentle imaging with maximum image quality.

21-Aug-2025 - Everyone who ever took a photo knows the problem: if you want a detailed image, you need a lot of light. In microscopy, however, too much light is often harmful to the sample – for example, when imaging sensitive biological structures or investigating quantum particles. The aim is therefore to ...

Waters acquires Wyatt Technology for $1.36 billion

Accelerates next phase of Waters' growth and value creation strategy

17-Feb-2023 - Waters Corporation announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Wyatt Technology, a pioneer in innovative light scattering and field-flow fractionation instruments, software, accessories, and services, for $1.36 billion in cash, subject to certain adjustments. The transaction is expected ...

Beware doping athletes! This sensor may be your downfall

02-Aug-2017 - Scientists searching for traces of drugs, bomb-making components and other chemicals often shine light on the materials they're analyzing. This approach is known as spectroscopy, and it involves studying how light interacts with trace amounts of matter. One of the more effective types of ...

Anton Paar acquires product line for particle characterization

08-Jun-2017 - Anton Paar expands the product portfolio for particle characterization by the acquisition of the corresponding division from CILAS (Orléans, France). The PSA instruments are based on the light scattering principle or image analysis. They give information about the size distribution and shape of ...

Potential of disk-shaped small structures, coccoliths

07-Sep-2015 - Researchers at Hiroshima University and the University of Tsukuba showed that coccolith disks made of calcium carbonate in Emiliania huxleyi, one of the promising biomass resources, potentially perform roles in reducing and enhancing the light that enters the cell by light scattering. Elucidation ...

New technique to sharpen microscope images

15-Apr-2014 - The complexity of biology can befuddle even the most sophisticated light microscopes. Biological samples bend light in unpredictable ways, returning difficult-to-interpret information to the microscope and distorting the resulting image. New imaging technology developed at the Howard Hughes ...

Vibrational molecular pathology

11-Dec-2013 - IR and Raman spectral imaging can distinguish between tissue types, disease types and stages, and even identify the primary tumors from spectral patterns observed in metastatic cells. Furthermore, these techniques can be used in the detection of circulating tumor cells. Spectral histopathology ...

A new Concept in Microscopy: Self-reconstructing Laser Beams

Researchers at the University of Freiburg are developing a microscope with illuminating beams that actively refocus in a light-scattering medium

14-Oct-2010 - It’s a familiar situation for all car drivers. In the autumn, when the roads are foggy, visibility drops below 50 metres. The light of the car’s headlights are scattered by the drops of fog, meaning we can’t see objects further away because the light can’t reach them. This everyday example ...

Colon cancer screening technique shows continued promise in new study

11-Jun-2009 - Recent clinical trials show that a new colon cancer screening technique created by Northwestern University researchers has a high enough sensitivity that it could potentially be as or more successful than a colonoscopy in screening for colon cancer. The technique uses optical technology, called ...

Malvern launches new web resource for protein researchers

19-Jan-2005 - Malvern Instruments has added a new and dedicated protein characterization section to its website. This new section provides comprehensive information about the use and applications of light scattering techniques in protein studies and will be a valuable resource for anyone working in this ...