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6 September 2020 September 2020

H2O For Life

Winston Ingram uses fluorescence to examine Water

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6 September 2020 September 2020

Optogenetic Control of Biological Forces

The boom of optogenetics, the art of making biological processes “light sensitive”, is influencing many different fields in biology

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6 September 2020 September 2020

SRRF-Stream+ Super-Resolution Microscopy Accessible to All Fast, reliable & live-cell compatible Super-Resolution

Science has limits imposed by the laws of physics that constrain discoveries and the advance of knowledge. In microscopy, up until the beginning of the 21st century, the diffraction limit of light was an unbreakable barrier.

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6 September 2020 September 2020

In the picture: Does Robert Hooke finally have a face?

Readers of the RMS Journal of Microscopy were treated to an intriguing paper published in the June issue, in which Texas A&M University Professor Dr Lawrence Griffing explores the history of a painting, Portrait of a mathematician, attributed to Mary Beale, circa 1680

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6 June 2020 June 2020

Remote SEM revolutionised – imaging and teaching accessible to all

Imagine what it would be like to continue with your research or having your students carry on working on their projects – all remotely using real instruments…

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6 June 2020 June 2020

Maintaining a stable environment for electron microscopy

This busy setting, combined with the growth – and noise – of the surrounding urban environment, creates considerable problems for electron microscopists, as the quality of the results depends heavily on maintaining a stable operating environment, free from vibration and external magnetic fields.

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6 June 2020 June 2020

Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry: Applications Scientist and Technical Sales

As an ASTS, my role is to provide academia and industry with solutions, both knowledge and equipment-based, to move them forward in their own research challenges.

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6 March 2020 March 2020

Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy: A local view of electrochemistry

The use of scanning probe electrochemistry techniques is growing, and has reached traditional fields from batteries to biology, and even some unexpected ones like fine art, forensics, and meteorites.

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6 March 2020 March 2020

Conditional Imaging with NIS-Elements

The JOBS module for Nikon’s NIS Elements software changes this by offering researchers without programming expertise the possibility of unlocking the full potential of their system in terms of both flexibility and massively increasing their productivity by having the system run in an unattended and unbiased, reproducible way.

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6 March 2020 March 2020

The Science Heritage Collection of Microscopes

The science heritage collection is being set up in response to the need for a collection of significant, but also accessible, instruments.

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