Mini2P is an open-source invention available from the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU in Trondheim. The blueprint, a shopping list, and instructional movies are available from GitHub.

Researchers have designed and built the world’s first microscope made entirely from 3D-printed parts. And because the open-source plans are already available online, almost anyone can assemble ...

For the majority of fluorescence microscopy experiments, controlling all components through software is the most efficient way to achieve optimum settings – and optimum results. Many modern LED ...

Olympus will exhibit their IX3 inverted microscope systems for live cell applications in booth 46-48 at the Focus on Microscopy 2013 (FOM) annual conference in Maastricht, Netherlands, 24th-27th of ...

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 ...

This article is part of the Ideas for Design Series: Vol. 3, No. 3 When the built-in incandescent light source of my venerable Olympus microscope failed after many years of use, I decided to ...

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 ...

Parts of a microscope and how a light microscope works Fundamentally, a microscope comprises two subsystems: an illumination system to illuminate the sample and an imaging system that produces a ...

Diamond Light Source: Giant microscope could help find out how bacterias are able to resist antiobiotics, scientists say 'It paves the way for developing new-generation drugs' ...