This page was last updated on 10^th January 2012

10^th January 2012
Webcast: "Raman Spectroscopy and Imaging in Biomedical Research"
The recent webinar sponsored by HORIBA Scientific and presented by Prof. Igor Chourpa (Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Tours, France) entitled “Raman Spectroscopy and Imaging in Biomedical Research” is now available as an on-demand webcast from Spectroscopy magazine.

Click here to view the webcast

30^th November 2011
New publication: Ultra-fast Raman imaging of single bacteria cells
Researchers at the University of Sheffield (UK) have published a paper titled “Rapid resonance Raman microspectroscopy to probe carbon dioxide fixation by single cells in microbial communities” in The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology. A HORIBA Scientific LabRAM HR system was key to this publication, and was used for ultra-fast Raman imaging of single bacteria cells, to identify uptake of isotope labelled carbon materials by the bacteria. With integration times of just 1ms per point, it was possible to generate high contrast images illustrating the presence of cells with and without incorporated ¹³C. Such isotope labelling experiments provide a facile way to understand the involvement of specific bacteria species in a range of environmental processes.

Download the article here

Reference:
Mengqiu Li, Daniel P Canniffe, Philip J Jackson, Paul A Davison, Simon FitzGerald, Mark J Dickman, J Grant Burgess, C Neil Hunter and Wei E Huang, The ISME Journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology, 2011.

23^rd September 2011
New application note on analysis of air pollutant particles
A new application note has been added to the Raman applications section of these web pages. “Confocal Raman microspectrometry imaging combined with chemometric methods for environmental applications” discusses the use of Raman spectroscopy to characterise airborne pollutants. These aerosol particles are small (< 50 µm) and thus require spatially resolved analysis. Chemometric methods are discussed, which allow full understanding of the particle composition. The effect of airborne contaminant on plant leaves is also investigated, using Raman to image necrotic leaf zones for pollutant distribution.

Click here to view the new application note

3^rd August 2011
HORIBA Scientific workshop at FACSS: “Forensic Science: Microscopy in Trace Analysis”

6^th July 2011
Course in chemometrics with Eigenvector

23^rd February 2011
New application note on graphene analysis

10^th February 2011
HORIBA Scientific aids identification of King Henri IV’s head

Click here for the News Archive

TBA

HORIBA Scientific’s e-Newsletter will enable you to receive periodic news of our latest developments, new product launches, new applications, trade events, and our hints and tips in the fields of Raman, Fluorescence, Elemental Analysis, Ellipsometry, GD-OES, Forensics, Particle Characterization, Photoluminescence, SPRi, X-Ray Fluorescence and Optical Spectroscopy. 

Receive the HORIBA Scientific e-Newsletter for free: Sign up