Light BYTES – September 2021: Lumencor’s 2021 Earth Day Imaging Contest
LUMENCOR’S 2021 EARTH DAY IMAGING COMPETITION. AND THE WINNER IS… Congratulations to Dr. Tejeshwar Rao, postdoctoral fellow in Professor Alexa Mattheyses’ laboratory in the Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology at the University of Alabama,...
Application SpotLIGHT – August 2021: Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells using the SPECTRA Light Engine®
Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells using the SPECTRA Light Engine® Detection of circulating tumor cells (CTC) is in widespread development as a noninvasive “liquid biopsy” for early-stage cancer diagnosis. CTCs are cells that circulate in the blood and the lymphatic...
LightREADING August 2021
New Faces: Welcome to Adrian and Valerie Lumencor is very pleased to welcome and introduce to you some fresh faces. Adrian Woodland (pictured right) is our new Marketing Assistant. Adrian is a recent graduate of the University of Oregon, BS in Business with emphasis...
Light BYTES – June 2021: Proud to be recognized as a Top 10 Photonics Solutions Provider by Semiconductor Review Magazine
Proud to be recognized as a Top 10 Photonics Solutions Provider by Semiconductor Review Magazine Control of the spatial, spectral and temporal characteristics of light is becoming increasingly important for defect analysis and device testing in semiconductor...
Light BYTES – May 2021: Epi-illuminators for CELESTA Light Engines® in Super-Resolution Imaging
Epi-illuminators for CELESTA Light Engines® in Super-Resolution Imaging Super-resolution imaging of RNA transcripts using multiplex error robust fluorescence in situ hybridization (MERFISH) and related methods in combination with the CELESTA Light Engine® [1]...
SOLA Light Engine® Configuration in Nikon Elements and Micro-Manager
SOLA Light Engine® Configuration in Nikon Elements and Micro-Manager Our new SOLA, SOLA FISH, SOLA U-nIR and SOLA V-nIR Light Engines are designed to provide backward USB control compatibility with their SOLA SE predecessors. However, some image acquisition programs...
Application SpotLIGHT – April 2021: Fabrication of Biomimetic Structures by Patterned Ultraviolet Photopolymerization Using the SOLA Light Engine®
Fabrication of Biomimetic Structures by Patterned Ultraviolet Photopolymerization Using the SOLA Light Engine® Solid state light sources are ideal for controlled initiation of photopolymerization reactions1, which are the basis of widely used techniques for...
Featured Article: Spectral, Spatial, and Temporal Output Characteristics of Light Sources for Optogenetic Stimulation
Spectral, Spatial, and Temporal Output Characteristics of Light Sources for Optogenetic Stimulation Iain Johnson of Lumencor explains Optogenetic techniques developed over the past 15 years, that have served neuroscientists well. They provide spectrally and spatially...
Light BYTES – March 2021: MAGMA Light Engine®: Solid State Illumination for Solar Test Platforms
MAGMA Light Engine®: Solid State Illumination for Solar Test Platforms Artificial light sources are essential for performance validation in photovoltaic device manufacturing and for characterization of properties such as photoconductivity and quantum efficiency in the...
Light BYTES – February 2021: Nature Method 2020 Method for the Year Features Lumencor’s CELESTA
Method of the Year: MERFISH Imaging using the CELESTA Light Engine® Nature Methods journal recently selected spatially resolved transcriptomics as Method of the Year for 2020. Spatially resolved transcriptomics is a collective term for a set of techniques directed...
