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Chemistry researchers at University of Leicester announce simple but effective way of lifting prints'Bullet fingerprinting' technology developed at the University of Leicester in collaboration with Northamptonshire Police is now being advanced in new ways.Dr John Bond, from Northamptonshire Police Scientific Support Unit and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leicester's Forensic Research Center developed- in collaboration with University scientists - a method to 'visualize...

PTB develops micro and nano coordinate measuring instrument for 3D objectsFrom the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. These micro and nano structures must be manufactured and assembled with the highest precision so that in the end, the overall system will function smoothly. Thereby, details are important - and therefore...

Nanoscience milestone opens up new possibilities in molecular electronics ZURICH, June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of individual atoms using noncontact atomic force microscopy. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...

CENTER VALLEY, Pa., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Olympus America Inc. ("Olympus") announced today that The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Patent No. 7,542,596, "Method & Apparatus for Internet, Intranet and Local Viewing of Virtual Microscope Slides." This patent further broadens the scope of the Olympus portfolio in the field of virtual microscopy. The patent claims methods for the transmission of virtual microscope image data and allows for the quick and efficient...

When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective -- they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method developed by Princeton researchers could lead to lenses that show all parts of the scene at once in the same high detail. The new method could help build more powerful microscopes and other optical devices."It allows you to take a closer look at an object without narrowing your field of...

University of Illinois scientists say they have created a simple technique for studying what happens to small molecules when they are stretched or compressed. The researchers said with stiff stilbene as a molecular force probe to generate well-defined forces on various molecules, atom by atom, they can observe what is widely otherwise observed only by using expensive atomic force microscopes. By pulling on different pairs of atoms, we can explore what happens when we stretch a molecule in...

A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented the world's smallest version of the periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once."With an off-the-shelf laboratory microscope you only see cells from one side, the top," says team member Chris Janetopoulos, assistant professor of biological sciences. "Not only can we see the tops of cells, we can view their sides as well "“ something biologists almost never see."The...

U.S. scientists say they have developed a new kind of microscope to visualize cells in 3-D, possibly advancing the field of early cancer detection. University of Washington Associate Professor Eric Seibel and colleagues say the technology might bridge a widening gap between cutting-edge imaging techniques used in research and clinical practices. The scientists, collaborating with VisionGate Inc. that owns the patents on the new microscope, said the technology -- known as Cell-CT -- works by...

Eric Seibel, a UW mechanical engineering associate professor, and his colleagues have worked in collaboration with VisionGate, Inc., a privately held company in Gig Harbor, Wash., that holds the patents on the technology. The machine works by rotating the cell under the microscope lens and taking hundreds of pictures per rotation, and then digitally combining them to form a single 3-D image.The 3-D visualizations could lead to big advances in early cancer detection, since clinicians today...

CSIRO has patented an improved microscopy method for measuring the shapes and sizes of proteins which could help scientists create new pharmaceuticals that are a better match for the proteins they target.The method, called Differential Aberration Correction (DAC) microscopy, measures distances at the molecular level in two and three dimensions using conventional fluorescence microscopy.A special feature of the new method, written up recently in the Journal of Microscopy, is that it allows...