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How to Get Deeper Insights into your Organoid and Spheroid Models
In this eBook, learn about key considerations for imaging 3D cultures, such as organoids and spheroids, and discover microscopy solutions to shed new insights into dynamic processes in 3D real-time
Exploring Subcellular Spatial Phenotypes with SPARCS
Discover spatially resolved CRISPR screening (SPARCS), a platform for microscopy-based genetic screening for spatial subcellular phenotypes at the human genome scale.
Imaging Organoid Models to Investigate Brain Health
Imaging human brain organoid models to study the phenotypes of specialized brain cells called microglia, and the potential applications of these organoid models in health and disease.
How Microscopy Helps the Study of Mechanoceptive and Synaptic Pathways
In this podcast, Dr Langenhan explains how microscopy helps his team to study mechanoceptive and synaptic pathways, their challenges, and how they overcome them.
What are the Challenges in Neuroscience Microscopy?
eBook outlining the visualization of the nervous system using different types of microscopy techniques and methods to address questions in neuroscience.
The Role of Iron Metabolism in Cancer Progression
Iron metabolism plays a role in cancer development and progression, and modulates the immune response. Understanding how iron influences cancer and the immune system can aid the development of new…
How is Microscopy Used in Spatial Biology? A Microscopy Guide
Different spatial biology methods in microscopy, such as multiplex imaging, are helping to better understand tissue landscapes. Learn more in this microscopy guide.
Cell DIVE: Unraveling Pathways in Pancreatic Cancer
Unlock new insights into tumour-immune interactions with spatial biology. Join our webinar to learn how to label >60 biomarkers per tissue section and use advanced clustering and analysis techniques…
Going Beyond Deconvolution
Widefield fluorescence microscopy is often used to visualize structures in life science specimens and obtain useful information. With the use of fluorescent proteins or dyes, discrete specimen…
Investigating Epithelial Morphogenesis and the Growth of Epithelia
This article shows how rapidly acquired THUNDER images of Drosophila follicles or egg chambers help distinguish apicobasal proteins when studying epithelial morphogenesis for cancer research.
Diseases Linked to Scaffold Proteins and Signaling
This article shows how diseases related to scaffold proteins and protein signaling can be studied in zebrafish models efficiently with a THUNDER Imager.
Understanding Better the Onset of Diabetes
This article shows how Interleukin-17 (IL-17) proinflammatory cytokine proteins in human pancreatic islets can be studied efficiently with a THUNDER Imager.
The Neural Crest (NC)
This article discusses how the study of neural crest (NC) development in chicken embryos is aided with haze-free imaging using a THUNDER Imager 3D Assay. Proper specification, migration, and…
Studying Ocular Birth Defects
This article discusses how lens formation and ocular birth defects can be studied with sharp widefield microscopy images which are acquired rapidly. The mouse ocular lens is used as a model to study…
Healthy Oocyte Development
This article discusses how the study of mechanisms involved in the generation of healthy oocytes in Drosophila fruit flies can be helped with sharp, haze-free images acquired with a THUNDER Imager…
Fast, High Acuity Imaging and AI-assisted Analysis
The use of state-of-the-art AI systems is pushing image analysis into a new generation. Challenges like the conflict between imaging power and sample integrity are being overcome with THUNDER’s…
Create New Options for Live Cell Imaging
The use of state-of-the-art AI systems is pushing image analysis into a new generation. Challenges like the conflict between imaging power and sample integrity are being overcome with THUNDER’s…
Expression of D2-Dopamine Receptors in Neurons
This article discusses how D2-dopamine receptors (D2R) in the substantia-nigra of mouse brain can be more clearly revealed with a THUNDER Imager 3D Assay using Instant Computational Clearing (ICC)…
Investigating Pulmonary Vascular Diseases
This article describes how the cellular and molecular programs governing the formation and maintenance of lung blood vessels, as well as what goes wrong with them when pulmonary vascular diseases…
Visualizing Retinal Interactions to Study Eye Diseases
This article shows how interactions between endothelial cells, blood vessels, microglia, and astrocytes in mouse retina can be studied efficiently with a THUNDER Imager 3D Cell Culture and Large…
Cranial Nerve Development
This article demonstrates how fast, high-contrast imaging of mouse embryos with a THUNDER Imager 3D Cell Culture and Large Volume Computational Clearing (LVCC) enable the investigation of axonal…
Accurately Analyze Fluorescent Widefield Images
The specificity of fluorescence microscopy allows researchers to accurately observe and analyze biological processes and structures quickly and easily, even when using thick or large samples. However,…
Save Time and Effort with AI-assisted Fluorescence Image Analysis
The powerful synergy of THUNDER and Aivia analyze fluorescence images with greater accuracy, even when using low light excitation.
Role of Mucins and Glycosylation in Dry Eye Disease
This article shows how fast, high-contrast, and sharp imaging of stratified human corneal epithelial cells with THUNDER imaging technology for dry eye disease (DED) research allows membrane ridges to…
Skeletal Muscle Adaptation and Fibrotic Diseases
The mechanisms of how skeletal muscle adapts to fibrotic pathologies can be investigated more efficiently with fast, high-contrast imaging of C2C12 mouse myoblast cells which is described in this…
How to Improve Live Cell Imaging with Coral Life
For live-cell CLEM applications, light microscopy imaging is a critical step for identifying the right cell in the right state at the right time. In this article, Leica experts share their insights on…
Optimizing THUNDER Platform for High-Content Slide Scanning
With rising demand for full-tissue imaging and the need for FL signal quantitation in diverse biological specimens, the limits on HC imaging technology are tested, while user trainability and…
Physiology Image Gallery
Physiology is about the processes and functions within a living organism. Research in physiology focuses on the activities and functions of an organism’s organs, tissues, or cells, including the…
Monitoring Immunosuppressive Mechanisms from Infection
This application note discusses the importance of fast, sensitive, and haze-free imaging for the monitoring of immunosuppression in mouse lung epithelial tissue infected with the Puerto Rico 8…
Neuroscience Images
Neuroscience commonly uses microscopy to study the nervous system’s function and understand neurodegenerative diseases.
Developmental Biology Image Gallery
Developmental biology explores the development of complex organisms from the embryo to adulthood to understand in detail the origins of disease. This category of the gallery shows images about…
“Brains-In-A-Dish” from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs)
This article discusses the benefits of using the THUNDER technology for imaging inside 3D human cortical brain organoids. These organoids are derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)…
Developing Heart Pacemaker Cells from Cardiac Spheroids
During the last decade, 3D cell culture has been established as a more realistic model compared to classical 2D culture systems. Cells can develop into miniature 3D objects, so called spheroids, which…
Putting Dynamic Live Cell Data into the Ultrastructural Context
With workflow Coral Life, searching for a needle in the haystack is a thing of the past. Take advantage of correlative light and electron microscopy to identify directly the right cell at the right…
Into the Third Dimension with "Wow Effect"- Observe Cells in 3D and Real-Time
Life is fast, especially for a cell. As a rule, cells should be examined under physiological conditions which are as close as possible to their natural environment. New technologies offer tremendous…
Observing 3D Cell Cultures During Development
3D cell cultures, such as organoids and spheroids, give insights into cells and their interactions with their microenvironment. These 3D cell cultures are playing an increasingly important role for…
Download The Guide to Live Cell Imaging
In life science research, live cell imaging is an indispensable tool to visualize cells in a state as in vivo as possible. This E-book reviews a wide range of important considerations to take to…
Studying Cell Division
Cell division is a biological process during which all cellular components must be distributed among the daughter cells. The division process requires firm coordination for success. Microscopy is…
Finding new Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
Tissue engineers use biomaterials for a variety of applications from drug delivery to supporting the regeneration of damaged or lost tissues to creating in vitro disease models. Scaffold architecture…
The Power of Pairing Adaptive Deconvolution with Computational Clearing
Learn how deconvolution allows you to overcome losses in image resolution and contrast in widefield fluorescence microscopy due to the wave nature of light and the diffraction of light by optical…
Improvement of Imaging Techniques to Understand Organelle Membrane Cell Dynamics
Understanding cell functions in normal and tumorous tissue is a key factor in advancing research of potential treatment strategies and understanding why some treatments might fail. Single-cell…
Studying Autoimmune Disease
This article discusses how autoimmune diseases, like systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), can be studied more efficiently using thick, 3D kidney tissue specimens visualized with a THUNDER Imager . SLE…
Image Gallery: THUNDER Imager
To help you answer important scientific questions, THUNDER Imagers eliminate the out-of-focus blur that clouds the view of thick samples when using camera-based fluorescence microscopes. They achieve…
From Organs to Tissues to Cells: Analyzing 3D Specimens with Widefield Microscopy
Obtaining high-quality data and images from thick 3D samples is challenging using traditional widefield microscopy because of the contribution of out-of-focus light. In this webinar, Falco Krüger…
Studying Human Brain Development and Disease
Neural spheroids created from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide effective and novel tools for studying brain development, as well as the underlying pathological mechanisms of…
An Introduction to Computational Clearing
Many software packages include background subtraction algorithms to enhance the contrast of features in the image by reducing background noise. The most common methods used to remove background noise…
Factors to Consider When Selecting a Research Microscope
An optical microscope is often one of the central devices in a life-science research lab. It can be used for various applications which shed light on many scientific questions. Thereby the…
How Can Immunofluorescence Aid Virology Research?
Modern virology research has become as crucial now as ever before due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. There are many powerful technologies and assays that virologists can apply to their research into…
Computational Clearing - Enhance 3D Specimen Imaging
This webinar is designed to clarify crucial specifications that contribute to THUNDER Imagers' transformative visualization of 3D samples and improvements within a researcher's imaging-related…
THUNDER Imagers: High Performance, Versatility and Ease-of-Use for your Everyday Imaging Workflows
This webinar will showcase the versatility and performance of THUNDER Imagers in many different life science applications: from counting nuclei in retina sections and RNA molecules in cancer tissue…
Evaluating Axon Regeneration After Brain or Spine Trauma of Mice
Damaged nerve regeneration was investigated using mouse spinal cord sections treated with compounds that counter axon growth inhibitor (AGI) proteins. The sections were screened to find active and…
Drosophila Testis Niche Stem Cells – Three Color Computational Clearing
Differentiated living beings such as humans, but also a fruit fly or a plant, possess not only the differentiated cells which form specific tissues, but also those cells whose fate is not yet (or only…
Alzheimer Plaques: fast Visualization in Thick Sections
More than 60% of all diagnosed cases of dementia are attributed to Alzheimer’s disease. Typical of this disease are histological alterations in the brain tissue. So far, there is no cure for this…
Real Time Images of 3D Specimens with Sharp Contrast Free of Haze
THUNDER Imagers deliver in real time images of 3D specimens with sharp contrast, free of the haze or out-of-focus blur typical of widefield systems. They can even image clearly places deep inside a…
Campos de aplicación
Imagen de célula viva
Con un cambio de perspectiva desde componentes individuales del microscopio a una solución de captura y procesamiento de imágenes de células vivas totalmente operativa, Leica Microsystems integra…
Microscopía de fluorescencia
La fluorescencia es uno de los fenómenos físicos más utilizados en la microscopía biológica y analítica, principalmente por su alta sensibilidad y alta especificidad. Averigüe cómo los microscopios de…
Investigación con pez cebra
Para obtener los mejores resultados en clasificación, selección, manipulación y captura y procesamiento de imágenes necesita ver los detalles y estructuras para poder tomar las decisiones adecuadas…
Fotomanipulación
El término fotomanipulación engloba una serie de técnicas que utilizan las propiedades de las moléculas fluorescentes para iniciar eventos y observar el comportamiento de compuestos dinámicos en…
Neurociencia
¿Trabaja para comprender mejor las enfermedades neurodegenerativas o la función del sistema nervioso? Vea cómo puede conseguir descubrimientos con las soluciones de imágenes de Leica Microsystems.
Organoides y cultivos celulares en 3D
Uno de los avances recientes más emocionantes en la investigación de las ciencias biológicas es el desarrollo de sistemas de cultivo celular en 3D, como organoides, esferoides y modelos de órganos en…
Virología
¿Su interés en investigación se centra en infecciones víricas y enfermedades? Descubra cómo puede adquirir conocimientos sobre virología con soluciones de generación de imágenes y preparación de…
Técnicas avanzadas de microscopía
Las técnicas de microscopía avanzada abarcan tanto las técnicas de imagen de alta resolución como las de superresolución. Estas técnicas se utilizan principalmente para visualizar eventos biológicos…
Técnicas básicas de microscopía
Se utilizan técnicas básicas de microscopía en las que todo el espécimen en la platina del microscopio se expone a una fuente de luz. Todo el espécimen se ilumina con luz blanca desde arriba (en una…
Microscopios DIC
Un microscopio DIC es un microscopio de campo ancho que tiene un filtro de polarización y un prisma Wollaston entre la fuente de luz y la lente del condensador, así como entre la lente del objetivo y…
Microscopios de campo oscuro
El método de contraste de campo oscuro aprovecha la difracción o dispersión de la luz de las estructuras de un espécimen biológico o las características no uniformes de una muestra de material.
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