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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…
Dec 14, 2009Story -
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Save Our Memory
In 1852 Leopoldo Alinari, with his brothers Giuseppe and Romualdo, founded a photographic workshop in Florence, which is at the heart of the firm that…
Dec 14, 2009Story -
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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…
Dec 01, 2009Story -
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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…
Sep 07, 2009Story -
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Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy Techniques in Developmental Biology
Selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM) and other fluorescence microscopy techniques in which a focused sheet of light serves to illuminate the…
Jun 15, 2009Abstract -
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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…
May 29, 2009Story -
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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…
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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…
Apr 15, 2009Story -
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No Defect Goes Undetected - Inspection of Micro-optic Components
Micro-optic components are used in a host of products concerned with illumination or imaging. Quality control of these components is challenging, as…
Apr 14, 2009Story -
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FRET Sensitized Emission Wizard Widefield
Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) is a technique, which allows insight into the interactions between proteins or molecules in proximities…
Apr 14, 2009Tutorial -
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New Standard in Electrophysiology and Deep Tissue Imaging
The function of nerve and muscle cells relies on ionic currents flowing through ion channels. These ion channels play a major role in cell physiology.…
Mar 17, 2009Story -
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High Data Output and Automated 3D Correlative Light–Electron Microscopy Method
Correlative light/electron microscopy (CLEM) allows the simultaneous observation of a given subcellular structure by fluorescence light microscopy…
Nov 15, 2008Abstract -
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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.…
Nov 02, 2008Story -
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Interview with Stefan Hell – For me, Pioneering is …
Our interview partner on the topic of Pioneering is Prf. Stefan Hell, a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and director at the Max Planck…
Aug 31, 2008Story -
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The First Supercontinuum Confocal that Adapts to the Sample
Until now, biological and medical research fluorescence imaging in multi-user facilities or institutes has been limited by the type or number of dyes…
Aug 22, 2008Story -
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From Molecules to Tissues
Cancer research using confocal and multiphoton microscopy. Sequencing of the human genome stimulated a radical change in the approach to biomedical…
Aug 21, 2008Story -
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Obese and Slim Yeast Cells
Lipids are on everyone’s lips nowadays, whether ω-3/6 fatty acids, good and bad cholesterol or just plain fat that has the annoying habit of…
Aug 21, 2008Story -
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The Future of Forensic Training Programs
Wayne Buttermore, Manager Regional Sales Industry at Leica Microsystems, interviewed Skip Palenik to hear his perspective on the benefits of…
Aug 06, 2008Story