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Pittcon 2019 committee calls for technical program proposals

The Pittcon Technical Program Committee is now accepting proposals for Symposia, Workshops, and Organized Contributed Sessions for the 2019 Technical Program.

From Pittcon 9 Apr 2018

Resistance training enhances cellular recycling in muscle cells

A new study has shown that resistance training among previously untrained men increases autophagosome content, but that this effect may be blunted by aging.

9 Apr 2018

Waking up “sleeping” stem cells in the brain could improve its ability to repair injury

Researchers have identified a new type of stem cell that could boost the brain’s ability to repair damage caused by brain injury or disease.

6 Apr 2018

Scientists create organoids that could help guide bladder cancer treatment

Researchers have created patient-specific bladder cancer organoids that imitate many of the features of real tumors and may therefore be used to study how cancer evolves.

6 Apr 2018

Phasefocus' Livecyte™ for label-free live cell imaging now available in US and Canada

Scientists in North America can now benefit from the high contrast, label-free, live cell imaging provided by Livecyte™.

From Phase Focus Limited 5 Apr 2018

Microscopic revelations could lead to new treatment options for deadly blood infections

Researchers at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) have for the first time been able to observe -- live and in real-time -- how the human body responds to often lethal fungal blood infections in the lung.

4 Apr 2018

Scientists develop futuristic gene therapy for liver cancer

Genetically engineered human T cells that are effective at fighting liver cancer in mice may one day help patients fight liver cancer, say researchers.

3 Apr 2018

UTA professor wins AHA grant to study biomechanical influences on ventricular development

A University of Texas at Arlington researcher is working to determine how blood flow and cardiac muscle contraction affects gene development that leads to ventricular chamber development in the heart.

31 Mar 2018

Live-cell imaging capabilities of the InVi SPIM microscope announced by Luxendo

Luxendo, a Bruker company, today announced the extension of the InVi SPIM microscope to include full incubation capabilities, as well as flexible illumination and detection optics.

From Bruker 28 Mar 2018

New imaging technology could significantly improve the accuracy of cancer diagnosis

A new cutting-edge imaging technology can grade cancer tumors, thereby eliminating human subjectivity and variability in the grading of cancer severity.

13 Mar 2018

Pittcon announces finalists in annual Pittcon Today Excellence Awards

Pittcon, the world’s leading conference and exposition for laboratory science, is pleased to announce the selection of ten finalists in the annual Pittcon Today Excellence Awards conducted by CE Communications, the official publishers of Pittcon Today and the Pittcon Buzz.

From Pittcon 12 Mar 2018

Bruker announces acquisition of high-speed QCL-based IR microscopy company

Bruker today announced that it has acquired IRM2, a developer of high-speed infrared imaging microscopes based on quantum cascade laser technology.

From Bruker BioSpin - NMR, EPR and Imaging 8 Mar 2018

Rice engineers develop thin lens-free fluorescent microscope

Lenses are no longer necessary for some microscopes, according to Rice University engineers developing FlatScope, a thin fluorescent microscope whose abilities promise to surpass those of old-school devices.

6 Mar 2018

Researchers use 3D jet writer to model metastatic cancer

Researchers have developed a 3D printer that uses polymers to generate a lifelike cancer microenvironment.

5 Mar 2018

Tradeshow Talks with Harrick Scientific

We talked to Jeff from Harrick Scientific about their new products at Pittcon 2018.

From Harrick Scientific 5 Mar 2018

Tradeshow Talks with CDS Analytical

We spoke to Terry from CDS Analytical at Pittcon 2018.

1 Mar 2018

Pancreatic progenitor cells could be used to treat diabetes, suggests study

Researchers have confirmed the existence of progenitor cells in the pancreas that can be stimulated to turn into glucose-responsive beta cells.

28 Feb 2018

Phasefocus™ appoints Australian distributor as part of expansion

The appointment of ATA Scientific Instruments as the official distributor for Phasefocus™ in Australia and New Zealand marks the latest step in the Imaging and microscopy businesses global expansion plan.

From Phase Focus Limited 26 Feb 2018

New staining method helps analyze 3D tissue samples using Nano-CT system

To date, examining patient tissue samples has meant cutting them into thin slices for histological analysis. This might now be set to change - thanks to a new staining method devised by an interdisciplinary team from the Technical University of Munich.

23 Feb 2018

Resolving Interfacial Protein Dynamics by STReM

STReM stands for Super Time-Resolved Microscopy, and as STORM, PALM, and other methods are designed to improve spatial resolution of optical microscopy, we desire to improve the time resolution. STReM makes use of point spread function engineering to encode fast events into each camera frame.

From Pittcon 16 Feb 2018