Zeiss, Janelia to Commercialize Fluorescence Technique

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus has teamed up with Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH to commercialize Bessel beam plane illumination microscopy, also called lattice light-sheet microscopy.

The method allows high-speed, 3-D fluorescence imaging of living cellular and multicellular specimens with nearly isotropic spatial resolution, low photo-bleaching and low photo-damage using special beam conditioning.

The fluorescence imaging method was invented by Janelia researcher Dr. Eric Betzig.

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