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Central Nervous System (CNS) Development and Activity in Organisms

This article shows how studying central nervous system (CNS) development in Drosophila-melanogaster embryos expressing a GCaMP calcium indicator in the neurons can be improved with a THUNDER Imager.
Central Nervous System (CNS) Development and Activity in Organisms

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…
Going Beyond Deconvolution

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…
Fast, High Acuity Imaging and AI-assisted Analysis

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…
Create New Options for Live Cell Imaging

Deciphering Signaling Pathways in Developmental Biology

This article shows how sharp, rapid imaging of neuronal progenitors in chick embryos with a THUNDER Imager Model Organism and small volume computational clearing (SVCC) could help with the study of…
Deciphering Signaling Pathways in Developmental Biology

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,…
Accurately Analyze Fluorescent Widefield Images

Autophagy and Age-Related Pathologies

High-contrast imaging of the model organism C. elegans, a nematode, with the THUNDER Imager Model Organism using Small Volume Computational Clearing (SVCC) helps to better understand how autophagy and…
Autophagy and Age-Related Pathologies

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…
Role of Mucins and Glycosylation in Dry Eye Disease

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…
Optimizing THUNDER Platform for High-Content Slide Scanning

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…
Physiology Image Gallery

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…
Monitoring Immunosuppressive Mechanisms from Infection

Neuroscience Images

Neuroscience commonly uses microscopy to study the nervous system’s function and understand neurodegenerative diseases.
Neuroscience Images

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…
Developmental Biology Image Gallery

“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)…
“Brains-In-A-Dish” from 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…
Developing Heart Pacemaker Cells from Cardiac Spheroids

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…
Into the Third Dimension with "Wow Effect"- Observe Cells in 3D and Real-Time

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…
Observing 3D Cell Cultures During Development

Cytosolic Calcium Ions in Melanoma Cancer Cells

In this article, a ratiometric fluorometric method for cytosolic calcium ion (Ca2+) measurement in cultured melanoma cells using Fura 2-AM cell loading and fluorescence microscopy imaging is presented…
Cytosolic Calcium Ions in Melanoma Cancer Cells

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…
Download The Guide to Live Cell Imaging

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…
Studying Cell Division

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…
Finding new Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering

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…
The Power of Pairing Adaptive Deconvolution with Computational Clearing

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…
Improvement of Imaging Techniques to Understand Organelle Membrane Cell Dynamics

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…
Studying Autoimmune Disease

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…
Image Gallery: THUNDER Imager

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…
From Organs to Tissues to Cells: Analyzing 3D Specimens with Widefield Microscopy

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…
Studying Human Brain Development and Disease

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…
An Introduction to Computational Clearing

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…
Computational Clearing - Enhance 3D Specimen Imaging

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…
THUNDER Imagers: High Performance, Versatility and Ease-of-Use for your Everyday Imaging Workflows

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…
Drosophila Testis Niche Stem Cells – Three Color Computational Clearing

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…
Alzheimer Plaques: fast Visualization in Thick Sections

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…
Real Time Images of 3D Specimens with Sharp Contrast Free of Haze

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…

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.

Organismos modelo en la investigación

Un organismo modelo es una especia empleada por los investigadores para estudiar procesos biológicos específicos. Sus características genéticas son similares a las de los humanos y se emplean de forma…

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…

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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