Super-resolution microscopy

Industry Leading Piezo Objective Scanners for fast AutoFocus and Metrology Applications with Nanometer Precision

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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Available in 3 travel ranges of 100m, 400m, and an industry leading 800m, high performance fast focusing with nanometer precision is achieved for applications such as super resolution microscopy, genome sequencing, wafer metrology, digital pathology, and laser material processing.

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  • Available in 3 travel ranges of 100m, 400m, and an industry leading 800m, high performance fast focusing with nanometer precision is achieved for applications such as super resolution microscopy, genome sequencing, wafer metrology, digital pathology, and laser material processing.
  • Equipped with direct measuring sensors for the highest linearity and stability, the frictionless piezo drive ensures rapid response, high stiffness, and a fast settling time of a few milliseconds.
  • Piezo-flexure guided focusing stages are more compact, provide better straightness, flatness, and reduced angular errors, commonly known as guiding precision.
  • PI's customers are leaders in high-tech industries and research institutes in fields such as photonics, life-sciences, semiconductors, and aerospace.

Eikon Therapeutics Closes $148 Million Series A Financing to Develop High-Throughput, Super-Resolution Microscopy for Drug Discovery

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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

b'Eikon Therapeutics, Inc., a pioneer in live-cell super-resolution microscopy and engineering for drug discovery, today announced that it has closed a $148 million Series A financing led by The Column Group with participation from Foresite Capital, Innovation Endeavors and Lux Capital.

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  • b'Eikon Therapeutics, Inc., a pioneer in live-cell super-resolution microscopy and engineering for drug discovery, today announced that it has closed a $148 million Series A financing led by The Column Group with participation from Foresite Capital, Innovation Endeavors and Lux Capital.
  • Super-resolution microscopy was first developed by Eric Betzig, PhD, and collaborators, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 for this work.
  • Dr. Betzig, Xavier Darzacq, PhD, Luke Lavis, PhD, and Robert Tjian, PhD founded Eikon to industrialize this novel technology and to apply the tracking of protein dynamics to key applications across the drug discovery process.\nDr.
  • Eikon is based in Hayward, Calif. Eikon can be found online via our website or on Twitter or LinkedIn .\nView source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210505005416/en/\n'

2021 FNIH Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences Winner Revolutionized Imaging to Reveal Structures Hidden in Cells

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Thursday, April 15, 2021

b'NORTH BETHESDA, Md., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) has named Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D., winner of the 2021 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences for pioneering the development of super-resolution microscopy and genome-scale imaging showing new spatial and functional organizations of molecules and cells.

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  • b'NORTH BETHESDA, Md., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) has named Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D., winner of the 2021 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences for pioneering the development of super-resolution microscopy and genome-scale imaging showing new spatial and functional organizations of molecules and cells.
  • How precisely these structures can be defined is limited by the physical properties of light itself, the so-called diffraction limit of light.
  • "\nNow in its ninth year, the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences recognizes outstanding achievement by a promising scientist aged 52 or younger.
  • "\nA jury of six distinguished biomedical researchers selected Dr. Zhuang as this year\'s Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences recipient.

Computer Vision for Microscopy Image Analysis, 2020 - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Monday, December 16, 2019

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition" book from Elsevier Science and Technology has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition" book from Elsevier Science and Technology has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • The post-acquisition component of high-throughput microscopy experiments calls for effective and efficient computer vision techniques.
  • Computer Vision for Microscopy Image Analysis provides a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to state-of-the-art computer vision techniques for microscopy image analysis, demonstrating how they can be effectively applied to biological and medical data.
  • Dr Chen's work in computer vision and biomedical imaging were nominated finalists for 5 Best Paper Awards and won 3.

Ghost Imaging Speeds Up Super-Resolution Microscopy

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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Researchers have used advanced imaging approaches to achieve super-resolution microscopy at unprecedented speeds.

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  • Researchers have used advanced imaging approaches to achieve super-resolution microscopy at unprecedented speeds.
  • In Optica , The Optical Society's ( OSA ) journal for high impact research, investigators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences describe how they used the unconventional imaging approach known as ghost imaging to enhance the imaging speed of nanoscopy.
  • The researchers turned to ghost imaging to speed up the STORM imaging process.
  • To form the image via ghost imaging and compressive imaging, this light intensity was correlated with a reference light pattern in a single step.

Super-resolution Imaging Technologies Markets in Life Science, 2024

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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

DUBLIN, Nov. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Super-resolution Imaging Technologies in Life Science" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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  • DUBLIN, Nov. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Super-resolution Imaging Technologies in Life Science" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • Super-resolution imaging (SRI), which is also known as nanoscopy or super-resolution microscopy, is a group of technologies that allow performing optical imaging beyond the diffraction limit of light.
  • When light passes through a small opening or meets a small obstacle, it does not continue in a straight path, but it bends.
  • The diffraction limit is the minimum distance between two objects that permits to differentiate the objects one from the other.

Ground-breaking Modular Research Microscope, Showcasing in PI Booth at Neuroscience 2019

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Friday, October 18, 2019

PI engineers are on-hand to answer questions and propose precision motion solutions relating to life-science projects in industry and research.

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  • PI engineers are on-hand to answer questions and propose precision motion solutions relating to life-science projects in industry and research.
  • PI is well-known for its piezo-based nanopositioning and scanning stages designed for super-resolution microscopy applications.
  • The company has been ISO 9001 certified since 1994 and provides innovative, high-quality solutions for OEM and research.
  • The PI group employs more than 1,300 people worldwide in 15 subsidiaries and R&D / engineering centers on 3 continents.

Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute and Leica Microsystems Establish Center of Excellence in Microscopy

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019

HOUSTON, Sept. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --The Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital and Leica Microsystems, Inc. combined efforts to establish the Leica Microsystems Center of Excellence at the NRI.

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  • HOUSTON, Sept. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --The Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital and Leica Microsystems, Inc. combined efforts to establish the Leica Microsystems Center of Excellence at the NRI.
  • The Center of Excellence features cutting-edge confocal microscopy technology from Leica, including STED and confocal super-resolution microscopy systems to capture dynamic processes at the molecular level.
  • "Leica Microsystems is proud to collaborate with the exceptional researchers at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital," said Douglas Giszczynski, Director of Academic Programs at Leica Microsystems Americas.
  • The Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital (NRI) opened in December 2010.