What do you get when you cross a day job as a Medical Histopathologist with an interest in 3D printing and programming? You get a fully-baked Open Source microscope ...

Modern microscopes used for biological imaging are expensive, are located in specialized laboratories and require highly qualified staff. To research novel, creative approaches to address urgent ...

A low-cost professional microscope based on open-source technologies has been developed by a group of engineers at the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering. The project is part of the ...

Modern microscopes used for biological imaging are expensive, are located in specialized laboratories and require highly qualified staff. To research novel, creative approaches to address urgent ...

A team of scientists has successfully developed a new type of microscope. The so-called NeuBtracker is an open source microscope that allows to observe neuronal activities of zebrafish without ...

The Sutter BOB — designed to eliminate the conventional microscope frame—is a simple, open-design upright microscope platform ideal for slice electrophysiology, wide field functional imaging, two ...

Researchers have developed an open-source microscope that can track a freely swimming zebrafish while also imaging fluorescently labeled cells in its brain. Credit: Barth van Rossum Discerning the ...

Open-source developers have long done their work in the public eye. Now, they're doing it under an academic microscope. Walt Scacchi, a senior research scientist at the University of California at ...

Light microscopy enables researchers to observe cellular mechanisms with high spatial and temporal resolution. However, the increasing complexity of current imaging technologies, coupled with ...

The microscopes, known as mesoSPIMs - short for 'mesoscale selective plane-illumination microscopes' can image brain tissues down to the minute details of individual neurons which are five times ...