Notas de aplicação
The mysterious and resilient creature in the moss around us, the tardigrade - Let's catch it! Let's observe it! -
junho 2024
There is an animal that is said to be the strongest living thing, but is only about 0.1 to 1 mm in length. They are called tardigrades because they move by walking slowly on four pairs of eight legs, but are also affectionately referred to as water bears. Their famous durability arises from their ability to enter a highly resilient state called anhydrobiosis. Anhydrobiosis occurs when the surrounding environment becomes dry, the water content in the body is reduced to a few percent, non-vital activities cease, and the body enters a non-metabolic state. In anhydrobiosis, the tardigrade can withstand temperatures up to 100℃ and is resistant to radiation and high pressure. What's more, by supplying water, biological activities can resume within a few minutes. Tardigrades are not only interesting from an ecological perspective, but they are also cute and fun to observe in their active state. In this application note, we will present the appearance of tardigrades revealed through a microscope.
SMZ25 Research Stereo Microscope for morphological research, taxonomy and type digitisation
novembro 2023
A picture is worth a thousand words
Since the time of Linnaeus, approximately 1.5 million new species have been described. As this accounts for only a modest fraction of global species diversity, taxonomists are constantly looking for methods to accelerate the pace of species discovery and enhance conventional description methods. Taxonomic descriptions depend on illustrations more than any other disciplines. From the earliest taxonomic treatments, the descriptions of species have nearly always been accompanied by visual representations to convey information about the morphology of the studied taxa. The importance of digital imaging in taxonomy has been long recognized, and its role in enhancing species description universally recognized.
Dr. Nesrine Akkari
Curator of the collection Myriapoda
Natural History Museum Vienna
AI + Macro Imaging
março 2021
Clarify.ai is a new AI module that removes the blurred light contained in fluorescence images and generates high-contrast images. Clarify.ai, used with a stereo microscope, can provide sharper fluorescence images than ever before; it enables not only macroscopic observation of model organisms, but also microscopic observation of fine structures.
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