Category: Cell Biology

BIC Museum of Microscopy – Beck Kassel CBS

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Beck Kassel CBS

Founded in 1892, Beck Kassel CBS (Christoph Beck and Sons) were a family business based in Kassel, Germany, engaged in the production of optical instruments, primarily binoculars. Following wartime destruction of their premises in 1944, the company … Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – exposition overview

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The museum main exposition overview

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Show window 1. Zeiss

 

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Show window 2. Beck Kassel CBS; Olympus; Zeiss

 

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Show window 3. Leitz; Reichert; Wild Heerbrugg… Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Overview

Utrecht Museum of Microscopy - page 1 image 1It is difficult to say who has invented the first optical microscope. Lenses have been used to magnify images of small objects for many centuries, and the oldest known lens is 3000 years old. There are several different implementations of … Read more

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Testing Nikon third generation Perfect focus System

2013.01.10
Testing Nikon third generation Perfect focus System (PFS3)

2013.01.10 Testing Nikon PFS3 1

2013.01.10 Testing Nikon PFS3 2

Pierre-Emmanuel Monet (Nikon Instruments Europe BV) is explaining to Qingyang Liu the advantages of dynamic focusing system.

Cell Biology Utrecht University, Room O-524

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Testing the PerkinElmer Ultraview VoX spinning disk microscope

2012.12.12
Testing the PerkinElmer Ultraview VoX spinning disk microscope at Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research

2012.12.12 Testing PerkinElmer SD-FRAP 01
Robert Stad (PerkinElmer) is acquiring the confocal image of the live HeLa GFP-Rab6 stable line cells using UltraVIEW VoX 3D live … Read more

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Upright fluorescence microscope Olympus AX70

Olympus AX70
Emine Korkmazare and Ankie van Geffen are working on the skin samples of intracranial aneurism from a patient, looking for the collagen aberrations.

Primary tasks: Imaging of fixed samples

Microscope: Olympus AX70

Objective:
A full set of objectives from 2.5x … Read more

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Setting up the Museum of Microscopy

2012.11.22
Setting up the Museum of Microscopy

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Beck Kassel CBS; Olympus; Zeiss

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Leica Window (Reichert; Wild Heerbrugg; Leitz)

20121122 Setting up the Museum of Microscopy 3
Carl Zeiss Window

Cell Biology Utrecht University, 5th floor… Read more

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Testing AMG EVOS digital inverted microscope

2012.11.20
Testing AMG EVOS digital inverted microscope

Testing AMG EVOS digital inverted microscope 1
Sabrina Oliveira is testing 14C head and neck cancer cells incubated with
anti-EGFP nanobody, conjugated with far-red 800CW fluorophore from Licor

Testing AMG EVOS digital inverted microscope 2
HeLa Rab6-GFP stable line, x20 objective

Cell Biology Utrecht University, Room N-527… Read more

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