Archives for July 13, 2004

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Electron microscopy tool improves drug R&D

US company QuantomiX has introduced its QX capsule technology to the European research market allowing researchers for the first time to directly image cells in their native wet environment with a standard scanning electron microscope (SEM).

Olympus unveils double-scan microscope

Olympus has launched a new confocal scanning microscope in Europe that promises to improve the imaging of live cells in fluorescence studies.

AIDS vaccine research 'blinkered'

Global efforts to develop a vaccine to prevent HIV infection and AIDS have intensified over the past few years, yet they continue to fall short of what is likely to be needed to achieve success, reports Phil Taylor.