ioLight Limited COVID-19 update The COVID-19 pandemic is not currently causing any delays in despatching ioLight portable high-resolution microscopes . We have split our team so that we can continue with production, support and sales activities while making sure we stick to the UK Government’s social separation guidance. We are sure that our customers will […]
UK portable microscope manufacturer, ioLight limited is delighted to launch a new microscope with an XY stage . XY stages allow the user to position the sample accurately under the microscope lens and to scan slides to count cells or parasite eggs. Today ioLight is pleased to annonce the launch of its 1 micron resolution […]
Monitoring climate change on the world’s highest mountain takes a special kind of microscope In 2019 National Geographic® filmed an ambitious expedition to 5,000m on Mount Everest . The expedition collected data measuring the impact of climate change on this vulnerable ecosystem. It is difficult to get precision scientific equipment up there, so very little […]
Many thanks to Robert Ratford for posting this beatiful image of a Gipsy Moth antenna on the Amateur Microscopy Facebook Group. Robert tells us that these moths can sense each other’s smells over large distances using these antennae. Robert is a fantastic advocate for microscopy and a huge source of knowledge and enthusiasm. Ask him […]
New field microscope in Singapore
The Future of Portable Microscopes IAHJ has published the final article of a series of four written by ioLight’s Andrew Monk. The latest article ponders what portable microscopes could do for animal health in the future. You can read the full article on page 10 of IAHJ by following this link.
Help wipe out parasitic worms at #ECTMIH2019 Soil-transmitted helminths infect 1.5 billion people worldwide. Children infected with parasitic wormsare nutritionally and physically impaired. The World Health Organisation plans to eliminate morbidity due to soil-transmitted helminthiases in children by 2020. The treatments are widely available and inexpensive. However, helminths can become resistant to widely used drugs […]
ioLight microscopes are used everywhere from Antarctica to the Kazakh Steppe, so eventually your microscope will need a clean. Cleaning ioLight’s micro-engineered plastic lens is a little different from cleaning a laboratory microscope. ioLight’s founder Richard Williams explains how in this video.
High-Resolution Microscopy in Antarctica or Anywhere! Many thanks to Jim Janoso of Northern Focus Optical for this great picture of his ioLight microscope at Palmer Station in Antarctica. Travelling to remote places means keeping the size and weight to a minimum. So, big heavy traditional compound microscopes are out. The ioLight microscope is the size […]
ioLight has invented a portable microscope, with a resolution of better than 1μm, which produces beautiful pictures of animal and plant cells and displays them directly onto your tablet or mobile phone.
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