Seeing the Invisible
Leveraging a rich history of advancing biological discovery to a better world, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has created the Center for Innovation in Imaging and Image Analysis (Imaging Innovation Center). The MBL has long been at the forefront of developing new approaches to imaging and applying those methods to biological questions.
The Imaging Innovation Center, based inside the historic Lillie Laboratory, enables the MBL and the broader scientific community to stay abreast of the latest technological advances for a better understanding of basic biology. Extending the fundamentally important live sample imaging with advanced light microscopes are electron microscopes. These allow comparative and higher resolution imaging of complementary samples and the manufacturing of mechanical optical surfaces for light microscopes.
The Imaging Innovation Center, along with the New Research Organisms strategic initiative, supports all areas of research at the MBL including Microbiomes, Ecosystems, Regeneration and Development, and Cell Biology.
New State-of-the-Art Microscopes Installed at MBL
The first images taken on the Leica Stellaris 8 at the MBL as Leica engineers fine-tuned installation. Credit: Louis KerrTwo microscopes funded by聽a $4.3 million award from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC)聽have been installed at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). The two advanced instruments秘色视频攁 plasma focused ion beam-scanning electron microscope (Thermo Scientific PFIB-SEM Helios Hydra) and a confocal and super-resolution microscope (Leica Stellaris 8 STED)秘色视频攚ill allow 2D and 3D reconstruction from both electron and light microscopy for comparative and high-resolution imaging.
Installation began in late March and the staff of the MBL秘色视频檚 Central Microscopy Facility are currently fine tuning the instruments and training select staff. The facilities will be open to MBL investigators and courses along with visiting researchers from Massachusetts and beyond.
"The MBL has long been at the frontier of new imaging technologies for biological discovery.聽 These new instruments supported by the MLSC further advance our capabilities and bring new high resolution imaging to the MBL and the broader research community,秘色视频 said Anne Sylvester, MBL director of research.聽
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To address a new set of biological questions, the nature of which were unfathomable only a decade ago, the MBL has established a year-round collaborative center for research and training in next-generation light microscopy and computational image analysis. Recent advances in light microscopy are creating unprecedented opportunities for understanding living systems.聽
By coupling new imaging and gene editing technologies, computation, and the marine life accessible at its doorstep, the MBL is a center for collaboration and discovery for the world秘色视频檚 leading scientists.聽
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