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I’ll be attending the ASCB conference tomorrow and will report on the latest technology available to our industry. I’m really looking forward to checking out the multi-photon systems now available!

A complete pricelist has been added to the macros and journals page. This is a menu of the standard plugins we have available for Elements and MetaMorph.

One of the presentations at the Neuroscience show in Chicago this year states that serious musicians are better at perceiving and remembering sounds than the average Joe. Cool stuff!

I’ve had an “Application has failed to launch” error after installing Elements on 3 new systems recently. Nikon has released a temporary fix until they update the installer. You can find the fix on my resources page or  here is the direct download.

I’ve been waiting for adaptive optics to be used in microscopy for a few years now. It became a side interest when I read about the uses of formable mirrors in ground-based astronomy. It now looks like a few groups are using these mirrors in microscopes! One can imagine the multitude of applications of a […]

This article describes a novel approach to acquiring an image digitally: use flash memory! Some of the limitations described in the article are the lack of dynamic range (only binary data is acquired) however the small size of flash memory may enable a gradient of optical densities to be laid down on an array of […]

Here are a few simple guidelines for deconvolution and presentation of deconvolved data. I’m posting them because it seems like I’m always forgetting one step or another, which results in waiting another 20 minutes for decon data to re-process… Acquisition: 1. Remember that the larger signal to noise you can get will deconvolve better. Large […]

I Found this while searching for a fluorophore. Very cool to watch on youtube!! Human Blood Clotting – Austin

Recently a colleague sent me a link to sensor sizes. Many of these are for consumer cameras, however the general references (1/3′, 2/3″ and so on) are helpful for microscopy cameras. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0210/02100402sensorsizes.asp – Austin