Raman News and Newsletter

Renishaw’s Raman seminars are becoming increasingly popular, attracting world-class speakers and providing excellent knowledge-sharing and networking opportunities.

The RA800-series of OEM benchtop instrument solutions. Based on a generic platform design, these high performance instruments can be configured to provide tailored chemical analysis solutions across a range of application areas.

Bring your samples to life with the new 3D fast imaging capability of the inVia Raman microscope. New inVia systems—with the StreamLineHR™ imaging option—can now collect and display Raman data from within transparent materials. This provides users with full 3D visualisation of their samples.

Renishaw introduced its new integrated Raman AFM package—developed in collaboration with Bruker Nano—at the Fall MRS meeting in Boston, MA, with acclaim from delegates.

Renishaw announces the lucky winner of an Apple iPad 2 tablet following the inside Raman seminar at the Natural History Museum earlier this year.

inVia Raman microscope imaging capabilities

Raman spectroscopy came under the spotlight recently at the Natural History Museum in London, when Renishaw held its 2011 ‘inside Raman’ seminar in the Museum’s Flett theatre on 26th and 27th September.

Microspheres - antibiotic carriers for the direct delivery of drugs to wound sites. Biodegradable microspheres are ideal drug carriers for antibiotics and for their direct application to sites of musculo-skeletal surgery. Understanding drug carrier formation and drug release efficiency is of paramount importance in optimising the design of drug delivery mechanisms.

Simple multicellular organisms, such as nematode, zebrafish, and fruit flies, play a critical role in translational medicine. Their ease of breeding, rapid turnover rates, simple cellular organisation, and transparency make them ideal for understanding early developmental pathways, gene functions, and human diseases.

A spectroscopic fingerprint from the microbial sample provides quantitative and qualitative information which can be used to characterise, discriminate and identify microorganisms, in both the bulk environment and at the single cell level.