Leica Microsystems
Leica Microsystems ist ein weltweit führender Hersteller von Mikroskopen und wissenschaftlichen Instrumenten. Im 19. Jahrhundert als Familienunternehmen gegründet, war die Geschichte des Unternehmens auf dem Weg zum Weltkonzern von beispielloser Innovation geprägt.
Die traditionell enge Zusammenarbeit mit der Wissenschaft ist der Schlüssel zur Innovationstradition von Leica Microsystems, die auf die Ideen der Anwender zurückgreift und auf deren Bedürfnisse zugeschnittene Lösungen schafft. Auf globaler Ebene ist Leica Microsystems in drei Divisionen gegliedert, die alle zu den führenden Anbietern in ihrem jeweiligen Bereich gehören: Life Science, Industrie und Medizin.
Das Unternehmen ist in über 100 Ländern mit 6 Produktionsstandorten in 5 Ländern, Vertriebs- und Serviceorganisationen in 20 Ländern und einem internationalen Händlernetz vertreten. Der Hauptsitz des Unternehmens liegt in Wetzlar, Deutschland.
How to Successfully Perform Live-Cell CLEM
The Leica Nano workflow provides a streamlined live-cell CLEM solution for getting insight bout structural changes of cellular components over time. Besides the technical handling described in the…
How to Successfully Implement Coral Life
The live-cell CLEM workflow allows you to capture dynamic information related to a relevant biological process as it happens and put these observations into their ultrastructural context. The Leica…
Advancing Cellular Ultrastructure Research
Freeze-fracture and freeze-etching are useful tools for studying flexible membrane-associated structures such as tight junctions or the enteric glycocalyx. Freeze-fracture and etching are two…
Proveo 8 with intraoperative OCT – a User Evaluation in an University Setting
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) makes structures in the eye visible that lie beneath the surface. When OCT is used intraoperatively, surgeons gain insight into possible pathological changes in the…
Be Confident in your Results with Cell DIVE Validated Antibodies
The Cell DIVE System includes a carefully curated list of hundreds of commercially available antibodies validated to offer optimal specificity and sensitivity in multiplexed imaging. That validation…
Optimal Visualization in Brain Surgery
This case study “Treatment of the Galassi type III arachnoid cyst with the M530 OHX surgical microscope from Leica Microsystems” documents the procedure step by step and shows the visualization…
Benefits of Combining STED and Lifetime
In this interview, Professor Alberto Diaspro talks about the advantages of the White Light Laser and the TauSTED capabilities of STELLARIS 8 STED. He speaks about his experience with the confocal…
Spectroscopic Evaluation of Red Blood Cells
Hemoglobinopathies are a major healthcare problem. This study presents a possible diagnostic tool for thalassemia which is based on confocal spectroscopy. This approach exploits spectral detection and…
How to use a Surgical Microscope as an Operating Room Nurse
Surgical microscopes play an essential role in the modern microsurgery procedures. It provides the surgeon, assistant and operating room staff with a magnified and illuminated high-quality image of…
How to Improve Live Cell Imaging with Coral Life
For live-cell CLEM applications, light microscopy imaging is a critical step for identifying the right cell in the right state at the right time. In this article, Leica experts share their insights on…
The Cryo-CLEM Journey
This article describes the Cryo-CLEM technology and the benefits it can provide for scientists. Additionally, some scientific publications are highlighted.
Recent developments in cryo electron…
Clinical Symposium on OCT-guided Cornea Surgery
In this recording Prof. Mehta from Singapore National Eye Centre and Prof. Fontana from Santa Maria
Nuova Hospital in Regio Emilia, Italy, share their expertise on corneal surgery. They present PK,…
How to Keep Your Samples Under Physiological Conditions
The Coral Life workflow combines dynamic data with the best possible sample fixation by high pressure freezing. However, good sample preservation won’t help if your cells are stressed by temperature…
Fluorescence Lifetime-based Imaging Gallery
Confocal microscopy relies on the effective excitation of fluorescence probes and the efficient collection of photons emitted from the fluorescence process. One aspect of fluorescence is the emission…
Optimizing THUNDER Platform for High-Content Slide Scanning
With rising demand for full-tissue imaging and the need for FL signal quantitation in diverse biological specimens, the limits on HC imaging technology are tested, while user trainability and…
Visualizing Protein Degradation and Aggregation in the Living Cell
Our guest speaker, Prof Dr Eric Reits, presents his work on neurodegenerative disorders. Reits’ group are experts on the subject of Huntington’s disease and work towards identifying leads for…
Towards Advanced Use of Intraoperative OCT in Cataract Surgery
In this White Paper, Dr. Rachid Tahiri shares his personal experience with the Leica EnFocus intraoperative OCT, the valuable features supporting smooth surgery and how it allows him to minimize…
How Clinical and Surgical Microscopes Support Otolaryngology
The number of ENT surgery procedures is increasing year after year. It is estimated that there will be over 21 million ENT procedures performed annually worldwide by 2022.
Dr. Duane Mol is the…
Capture life as it happens
With the Leica Nano Workflow, searching for the needle in the haystack is a thing of the past. Take advantage of correlative light and electron microscopy to identify directly the right cell at the…
Life Beyond the Pixels: Deep Learning Methods for Single Cell Analysis
Our guest speaker Prof Dr Peter Horvath presents his work on single cell-based large-scale microscopy experiments. This novel targeting approach includes the use of machine learning models and…
Introduction to 21 CFR Part 11 and Related Regulations
This article provides an overview of regulations and guidelines for electronic records (data entry, storage, signatures, and approvals) used in the USA (21 CFR Part 11), EU (GMP Annex 11), and China…
Physiology Image Gallery
Physiology is about the processes and functions within a living organism. Research in physiology focuses on the activities and functions of an organism’s organs, tissues, or cells, including the…
Live Cell Imaging Gallery
Live cell microscopy techniques are fundamental to get a better understanding of cellular and molecular function. Today, widefield microscopy is the most common technique used to visualize cell…
Tissue Image Gallery
Visual analysis of animal and human tissues is critical to understand complex diseases such as cancer or neurodegeneration. From basic immunohistochemistry to intravital imaging, confocal microscopy…
Neuroscience Images
Neuroscience commonly uses microscopy to study the nervous system’s function and understand neurodegenerative diseases.
Multicolor Image Gallery
Fluorescence multicolor microscopy, which is one aspect of multiplex imaging, allows for the observation and analysis of multiple elements within the same sample – each tagged with a different…
Cancer Research Image Gallery
Fluorescence microscopy allows the study of changes occurring in tissue and cells during cancer development and progression. Techniques such as live cell imaging are critical to understand cancer…
DIC
Ein DIC-Mikroskop ist ein Weitfeldmikroskop, bei dem sich zwischen Lichtquelle und Kondensorlinse sowie zwischen Objektiv und Kamerasensor oder Okularen ein Polarisationsfilter und ein…
Cell Biology Image Gallery
Cell biology studies the structure, function and behavior of cells, including cell metabolism, cell cycle, and cell signaling. Fluorescence microscopes are an integral part of a cell biologist…
Dissecting Proteomic Heterogeneity of the Tumor Microenvironment
This lecture will highlight cutting edge applications in applying laser microdissection and microscaled quantitative proteomics and phosphoproteomics to uncover exquisite intra- and inter-tumor…
