Scientific Digital Imaging Workshop Presented at Virginia Tech
On October 4, 2019 Cellular Imaging Facility Core manager Doug Cromey, MS was the invited speaker for a half-day workshop at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University entitled Introduction to Scientific Digital Images: Avoiding Twisted Pixels. Full Story: http://swehsc.pharmacy.arizona.edu/digital-imaging-workshop-VT
Dancing Atoms Reveal Potential Capabilities of Materials
An important part of Peter Crozier’s job involves watching dances. He views these intricate performances through state-of-the-art, high-powered microscopes because the dancers are atoms. Crozier is a materials scientist at Arizona State University who studies how the underlying principles of nature can be applied to pursuits in materials science and engineering. To do that, he [...]
Imaging at the Speed of Life
To study the swiftness of biology – the protein chemistry behind every life function – scientists need to see molecules changing and interacting in unimaginably rapid time increments: trillionths of a second or shorter. Imaging equipment with that kind of speed was finally tested last year at the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser, or EuXFEL. Full [...]
UA to add several new high-end Microscopes
Senior Vice President for Research Kimberly Espy has approved funding to move forward with the purchase of three high-end optical microscopes from Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC. Zeiss had the winning proposal in a competitive RFP that was conducted this summer. The instruments include an inverted confocal microscope and an upright multi-photon/confocal microscope to be placed [...]
New Cryo-EM at the Southwest Regional Center
The hottest technology in all of science will soon bring a new coolness factor to world-class Arizona State University research. The coolest new way to take a near-atomic resolution snapshot of life at work is cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) – lauded recently by Nature as its 2015 ‘Method of the Year’ – and now coming soon [...]
USA Today: Increasingly, dispensaries and patients are turning to laboratories to evaluate plants
An article published in the Arizona Republic on January 6th, was picked up by USA Today about private research groups screening medical marijuana from dispensaries to screen for molds or pesticides. In addition to testing for contaminants that may cause illness in those with a weakened immune system, the AZ Med Testing company can also measure the amount of active cannabinoids in the dispensary samples. For the full [...]
Ever hear of a Foldscope?
Stanford researcher Manu Prakash developed a microscope that can fit into your pocket! It’s a 50-cent print-and-fold paper microscope that uses a watch battery, LED and a few optical units that can magnify objects up to 2,000 times. The original goal of this project was to provide an inexpensive way for people working in clinics [...]