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Gatan GIF Quantum LS Imaging Filter with K2 Summit Camera Approaches 2.2 Å Resolution


Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy is for scientists who want to study DNA, proteins, and other biological molecules at atomic resolution. Researchers have shown that they can achieve resolutions that are good enough to almost visualize the atoms in individual amino acid residues in proteins. Cryo em can now resolve “holes” at the center of certain molecules, a feature typically associated with structures derived by X-ray crystallo- graphy at resolutions better than 2 Å resolution.


Gatan Inc. www.gatan.com/quantumls


Renishaw Adds Raman Analysis to Scanning Electron Microscopy at The University Of Sydney, Australia


Dr. Elizabeth Carter is manager of the vibrational spectroscopy core facility at the University of Sydney. T is professional services unit houses one of the largest concentrations of state-of-the-art Raman and FT-IR spectrometers in Australia. T e research interests of facility users are diverse, and applications include: nanotechnology, materials science, art and archaeology, polymer science, pharmaceutics, environmental, forensics, mineralogy and gemmology, medical diagnostics, disease mechanisms, and other life sciences.


Renishaw plc www.renishaw.com/SEMRaman


UCLA Combines Raman Microscopy with Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) to Study Archaeological Textiles and Fibers


UCLA uses a Renishaw SEM-SCA system to study textiles and fi bers non-destructively. A paper published in the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy describes how a SEM may be interfaced with µRS to provide a means of non-destructively identifying organic compounds in complex samples, such as single fi bers, by extrac- tionless analysis. T is enables the characterization of dyes from reference collections and archaeological textiles.


Renishaw plc www.renishaw.com/Raman


XEI Scientifi c Appoints EM Resolutions as Distributor for the UK and Irish Markets


XEI Scientifi c Inc, maker of the popular EVACTRON De-Contaminator™ Plasma Cleaning System, has appointed


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EM Resolutions Limited as their exclusive distributor for their products in the UK and Ireland. Founded in 2012, EM Resolutions off ers a wide range of consumables and accessories for the electron microscopy marketplace. By being able to off er Evactron plasma cleaning, EM Resolutions can help their clients clean and maintain vacuum quality in their instrumentation.


XEI Scientifi c, Inc. and EM Resolutions www.evactron.com


44 Quick and Accurate Sperm Viability Testing


Prior Scientifi c reports that its Lumen 100-LED has been integrated by Microptic SL to provide illumination for their Sperm Class Analyser (SCA) system. Microptic’s SCA system is designed to quickly and accurately determine the


number of live and dead sperm cells within a sample via fl uorescence microscopy. Fluorescence illumination for the SCA is provided by the Lumen 100-LED system, with Microptic selecting the single high- performance LED emitting in the ultraviolet range at 365 nm.


Prior Scientifi c Instruments Ltd www.prior-scientifi c.co.uk//Products/Live-Cell-Imaging.aspx


Markus Lusser is the New President of Leica Microsystems


Markus Lusser is the new President and Director of Leica Microsystems, headquartered in Wetzlar, Germany. He succeeds Andries Peter Jan van den Broek who has leſt the company. In his new role with Leica Microsystems, Lusser assumes leadership over a major worldwide developer and manufac- turer of microscopes and scientifi c analysis instruments. T e company off ers innovative, application-oriented solutions for the inspection and evaluation of micro- and nano-structures in a wide range of markets.


Leica Microsystems GmbH www.leica-microsystems.com


Bitplane Makes the IMS File Format Open Source


Bitplane, an Oxford Instruments Company, announced that its proprietary IMS fi le format would become open source. T e IMS fi le format is based on Hierarchical Data Format (HDF5), which is designed to work with huge multidimensional data and is optimized to allow extremely fast visualization of huge volume data. To facilitate this, the format stores not only the original image data, but also lower-resolution versions of the original data.


Bitplane USA http://open.bitplane.com/ims


New International Electron Microscopy Demonstration and Application Facility for Quorum


A new state-of-the-art cryo scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and analysis suite was formally opened at the Quorum headquarters in Laughton, East Sussex. T e facility is the result of collaboration between Quorum Technologies, Hitachi High Technologies, and Oxford Instruments. At the heart of the new facility is a Hitachi SU8230 fi eld emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) fi tted with technology-leading Oxford Instruments X-MaxN150 X-ray microanalysis and Quorum PP3010T cryo preparation systems.


Quorum Technologies www.quorumtech.com


doi: 10.1017/S1551929515000875 www.microscopy-today.com • 2015 November


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