Anja Schué , Dipl. oec.-troph.
Anja Schué studied Nutrition Science at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen, Germany. After a traineeship at a medical specialist publisher, she worked for different other specialist publishers. Simultaneously, she absolved an additional training at the Academy for Marketing Communication in Frankfurt/Main, with the degree “Certified Communication Expert”. Afterwards, she worked for an advertising agency for several years, where she was responsible for the support of technological companies also guiding a couple of Initial Public Offerings. After other stations, such as the Communication Department of the Deutsche Bahn, Anja Schué worked for the Global Marketing & Communications Department of Leica Microsystems from 2006 to 2017. In her role a Manager Scientific PR she was responsible for public relations, the global social media channels, and the Science Lab.
FusionOptics – Combines high resolution and depth of field for ideal 3D optical Images
A study carried out jointly by Leica Microsystems and the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology provided the basis for an innovation in…Read article
Beware of "Empty" Magnification
This article explains how to avoid the phenomen of "empty magnification" in microscopy.Read article
Research for the Optimal Structure
To see how liquids can be made to flow, without being directly heated or touched, you only have to watch a raw egg explode in a microwave oven. Electromagnetic forces can even melt metal at hotter…Read article
Steel – It All Depends on What's Really Inside
Steel, an alloy of iron and carbon, is both stable and elastic, extremely resistant, and a permanent item in our everyday life. Today there are over 2,500 standard steel types, with new grades and…Read article
Seeing Without a Haze – Trends in Cataract Surgery
Cataract surgery has been practised for centuries and is one of the most common operations performed worldwide today. Ultra modern surgical techniques with tiny incisions and high-quality prosthetic…Read article
Just What the Surgeon Wants
We’ve all experienced an everyday product at some time that had great technology and a stylish design but was totally impractical to use. A designer coffee pot that spills its contents all round the…Read article
The Mitochondrial Hypothesis of Ageing
Why do we grow old? Research scientists have been looking for an answer to this question for many years – particularly against the background of the increase in neurodegenerative diseases among older…Read article
Cochlea Implants for the Deaf and Severely Hard of Hearing
People who can’t hear are outsiders, cut off from normal conversation. Children born into a silent world never learn to talk. Adults who lose their hearing due to age, accident or illness are no…Read article
Restoring Former Glory with Cotton Buds and a Microscope – The Princely Collections of Liechtenstein
On her way to work, Ruth Klebel is often approached by tourists asking for the times of guided tours. She always gives the same answer before disappearing behind the wide automatic gate: “I’m afraid…Read article
Precision That Saves Eyesight
Retina surgery demands experienced surgeons and precision technology. In vitreoretinal surgery, the surgeon operates with microscissors and forceps that are less than a millimeter thick. The Swiss…Read article
Steel – the All-Rounder That Has to Pass Many Tests
Steel is a real all-rounder. However, each application requires a specifi c sort of steel grade. Without steel there would be no Olympic stadiums, wind energy plants, bridges, skyscrapers, trains,…Read article
State-of-the-Art Microscope Enables New Vitreoretinal Surgery Technique
In pars plana vitrectomy, three ocular incisions are normally made. Thanks to the superb optics and the unique illumination concept of the Leica M844 F40, Dr. Luca Cappuccini from Reggio Emilia…Read article
Sniffing Out the Secrets of Social Behavior
Yet we are only just beginning to understand the complexities and functional differences of the sense of smell in mammals. Prof. Marc Spehr, head of the Department of Chemosensation at RWTH Aachen…Read article
Restless Receptors
Synapses are the switch-points in our brain for information transmission, learning and memory. News studies and developments of imaging techniques have provided new insights into the dynamics of…Read article
Collecting "Funny Money"
Nobody wants counterfeit money in their wallet. Even counterfeiters want to get rid of their own creations as quickly as possible. However, experts work intensively to identify counterfeit money on…Read article
Genuine or Fake
ID cards, driving licenses, birth certificates, A-level exams – the potential for individual perpetrators or gangs to gain advantages by forging documents is vast. And the more sophisticated the…Read article
Even Insect Fragments Throw Light on How Crimes Are Committed: How Forensic Biologist Dr. Mark Benecke Gains Insights
Many people know Germany’s most famous forensic biologist, Dr. Mark Benecke from Cologne, from TV documentaries showing how crimes are solved. Benecke is a welcome guest on talk shows on topics such…Read article
Trends in Microscopy
There are digital cameras, digital TV sets, digital picture frames, digital schools on the internet. Cryptologists design digital signatures, communication researchers speak of digital identity.…Read article
Ground Beetles Shed Light on the Environmental History of High Mountain Regions
With over 35,000 known species, ground beetles – or Carabidae – are among the most speciose groups of animals in the world. Biologist Dr. Joachim Schmidt devotes his entire scientific work to the…Read article
Clean Parts – More Reliable and Longer Lifetime
In the automotive industry, the technical cleanliness of function-critical individual and system components has become an increasingly critical criterion for reliability and service life. This trend…Read article
Interview with Dr. Yasushi Okada
Yasushi Okada, team leader at Riken Quantitative Biology Center in Osaka, Japan, investigates vesicular transport mechanisms in neuronal cells. As the size of transported vesicles is below 100 nm and…Read article
Video Interviews with Kees Jalink
Kees Jalink's group at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, explores signal transduction pathways and cell adhesion processes in cancer cells. In his eyes especially the new…Read article
Video Interview with Timo Zimmermann
The first super-resolution image he saw was an eye opener for him: "It was not just structures that got smaller. I was looking at a sample that I specifically had high hopes of seeing another layer of…Read article
Video Interview with William Hughes
William Hughes works at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney (Australia). In his Lab Head position he is interested in the causes of diabetes particularly looking at changes in exocytic…Read article
Video Interview with Stefan Hell, the Inventor of Super-Resolution
Professor Stefan Hell is director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and head of the department of NanoBiophotonics in Goettingen and widely considered as the father of…Read article
Video Interview with Jean-Luc Vonesch
Jean-Luc Vonesch is head of the imaging facility at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), Strasburg, France. 23 years ago he was the founder of this facility which…Read article
"Leica is always flexible and dynamic" - Interview with Audrey Salles, Pasteur Institute, Paris
Audrey Salles is a specialist for confocal and super-resolution microscopy at Pasteur Institute, Imagopole, PFID, Paris, France. Her research interests are cytokine signaling and skeleton organization…Read article
Four questions for Professor Stefan Hell on the subject of FOM 2015
For Professor Stefan Hell, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2014 for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy and the development of STED microscopy, the Focus on Microscopy…Read article
Interview with Dr. Gertrude Bunt and Prof. Fred S. Wouters on the FOM 2015
Only a few days to go before the start of Focus on Microscopy 2015 in Göttingen, Germany. This year’s FOM is being organized by Dr. Gertrude Bunt and Prof. Dr. Fred S. Wouters from the University…Read article
"We can go home and the imaging is done automatically by the Leica HCS A Matrix Screener."
Jutta Maria Bulkescher is the technical coordinator in the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research and Danish Stem Cell Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Leica HCS-A matrix screener is an…Read article
"The Leica Digital Light Sheet Module – a Clever Example of Thinking Out of the Box"
Bram van den Broek is a postdoctoral fellow at the Netherlands cancer institute in Amsterdam where he supports the advanced microscopy techniques in the laboratory of Kees Jalink. Working with Leica…Read article
"The excellent red reflex, combined with the IOL guidance system, makes it possible for me to work quickly and precisely during refractive procedures."
Excellent red reflex as well as maximum accuracy throughout the entire procedure are required to meet these expectations. Dr. Ulrich Jung, Medical Director at the ARTEMIS eye clinic in Dillenburg,…Read article