Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) micro-spectroscopy merges infrared (IR) spectroscopy with visualization. As IR spectroscopy offers high specificity for molecular structure and chemical composition, ...

Imaging live cells without disrupting their natural behavior or damaging their structures is one key challenge in biomedical optics, and has been tackled in multiple ways. A project at NIST has now ...

Global health is changing as a result of developments in life sciences research and technology, and these advancements have the potential to offer innovative and improved approaches to promote a ...

If you were to use infrared (IR) transmission microscopy, you would appreciate its chemical quantification abilities—unless your object of study was a hydrated cell. In that case, you might complain ...

Bruker Corporation BRKR recently launched the LUMOS II ILIM, a quantum cascade laser (QCL)-based infrared imaging microscope. The breakthrough innovation sets new performance standards, enabling ...

Scientists captured clear images of biomolecules in single live cells in water for the first time using infrared (IR) transmission imaging. The IR technique enables researchers to measure the mass of ...

The Thermo Scientific Nicolet iN10 Infrared Microscope significantly advances productive, contemporary, and cost-effective infrared microanalysis. The Nicolet iN 10 is an intelligent, unique, and ...

What would you do if all you had to connect an alleged hit-and-run driver to the victim was a thread found on the driver's car bumper? How would you identify a microcontaminant found on the surface of ...

An image of biomolecules, such as nucleic acids, lipids and proteins, in live cells using an imaging technique called infrared (IR) transmission microscopy. To accelerate biotechnology innovations, ...