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A Guide to Using Microscopy for Drosophila (Fruit Fly) Research
      
          The fruit fly, typically Drosophila melanogaster, has been used as a model organism for over a century. One reason is that many disease-related genes are shared between Drosophila and humans. It is…
        
    
  
      
    
      A Guide to Neuroscience Research
      
          Neuroscience often requires investigating challenging specimens to better understand the nervous system and disorders. Leica microscopes helps neuroscientists obtain insights into neuronal functions.
        
    
  
      
    
      A Guide to Zebrafish Research
      
          To obtain optimal results while doing zebrafish research, especially during screening, sorting, handling, and imaging, seeing the fine details and structures is important. They help researchers make…
        
    
  
      
    
      Improving Zebrafish-Embryo Screening with Fast, High-Contrast Imaging
      
          Discover from this article how screening of transgenic zebrafish embryos is boosted with high-speed, high-contrast imaging using the DM6 B microscope, ensuring accurate targeting for developmental…
        
    
  
      
    
      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.
        
    
  
      
    
      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…
        
    
  
      
    
      Find Relevant Specimen Details from Overviews
      
          Switch from searching image by image to seeing the full overview of samples quickly and identifying the important specimen details instantly with confocal microscopy. Use that knowledge to set up…
        
    
  
      
    
      How to Remove Out-Of-Focus Blur and Improve Segmentation Accuracy
      
          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,…
        
    
  
      
    
      High-resolution 3D Imaging to Investigate Tissue Ageing
      
          Award-winning researcher Dr. Anjali Kusumbe demonstrates age-related changes in vascular microenvironments through single-cell resolution 3D imaging of young and aged organs. 
        
    
  
      
    
      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…
        
    
  
      
    
      A Guide to Darkfield Microscopes
      
          A darkfield microscope offers a way to view the structures of many types of biological specimens in greater contrast without the need of stains. 
        
    
  
      
    
      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…
        
    
  
      
    
      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…
        
    
  
      
    
      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…
        
    
  
      
    
      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…
        
    
  
      
    
      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…
        
    
  
      
    
      Guide to Microscopy in Cancer Research
      
          Cancer is a complex and heterogeneous disease caused by cells deficient in growth regulation. Genetic and epigenetic changes in one or a group of cells disrupt normal function and result in…
        
    
  
      
    
      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…
        
    
  
      
    
      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…
        
    
  
      
    
       
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
    