Harvard to Collaborate with JEOL on High Resolution, 3D Brain Imaging

A collaborative effort to map and produce a 3D image of the entire mouse brain using high resolution SEM images has been established between JEOL USA and aHarvard University.

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New technique breaks nanometer barrier in X-ray microscopy

A new X-ray microscopy technique that observes molecular-scale features less than a nanometer in height has been developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration with Xradia, Inc.

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IBM Research Creates Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy

IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI.

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LBNL Opens National Center for X-ray Tomography

Located at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS), this new center features a first-of-its-kind x-ray microscope that will enable scientists to perform “CAT scans” on biological cells, just one of many unprecedented capabilities for cell and molecular biology studies.

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New Microscope Sharpens Scientists' Focus

A new light microscope so powerful that it allows scientists peering inside cells to discern the precise location of nearly each individual protein they are studying has been developed and successfully demonstrated by scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm research campus.

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New Type Of Optical Microscopy Attains Near-Molecular Resolution

A new type of microscopy invented by Xiaowei Zhuang delivers spatial resolution more than 10 times better than that of conventional optical microscopes, putting scientists tantalizingly close to the first crisp, ultra-resolution, real-time imaging of living biomolecules and cells.

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