Microscopy

With thanks to Dr. Karl Robstad, a pathology resident in Albany, New York for the tip on this offering from Leica. The new Leica LMD7000 is a laser microdissection system with a power-adjustable, high precision laser. For the first time, high...

This sounds like technology that is far superior to current electron microscopy for resolution and depending on cost of course may one day replace the light microscope itself for routine microscopy with nano technologies they claim are...

The bacterial cell wall that is the target of potent antibiotics such as penicillin is actually made up of a thin single layer of carbohydrate chains, linked together by peptides, which wrap around the bacterium like a belt around a person,...

For the third year in a row, Cleveland Clinic doctors and consultants have picked the medical innovations they think will rise to the top next year. The Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2009 were announced on the closing day of the...

Check out this interesting story out of Israel using spectral imaging for improved diagnostics: "You won't find many professionals in the field admitting it, but the awful truth is that pathology is not an exact science, and mistakes are...

The Device Guru has an interesting post on a "microscopic microscope" from Cal Tech.  Here is the introduction: Caltech claims its researchers have “turned science fiction into reality” with their development of a...