Many employees at Alcon Grieshaber spend eight hours at the microscope every day. Alcon Grieshaber is one of the pioneers in ergonomics within the Alcon, Inc. Ergonomic chairs, height-adjustable desks, elbow rests to take strain off the shoulders are all automatically provided. The company also places great value on individually adjusted, ergonomic microscopes and uses …
A quarter of an hour for clear vision In the 15-minute operation, which is often performed as outpatient surgery, the clouded lens is fragmented by ultrasound and then removed by suction. An artificial lens, the intraocular lens (IOL) is inserted into the intact capsular bag to restore the patient’s visual acuity. Thanks to a wide …
If we wouldn’t comply with the highest standards of quality, we would not rank among the world’s best companies. As an accredited testing laboratory, we have to meet stringent specifications and are therefore able to vouch for the reliability, objectivity and accuracy of our results – irrespective of whether we inspect our own products during …
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In microscopy, depth of field is often seen as an empirical parameter. In practice it is determined by the correlation between numerical aperture, resolution and magnification. For the best possible visual impression, the adjustment facilities of modern microscopes produce an optimum balance between depth of field and resolution – two parameters which in theory are …
Purified putative stem cells are plated at very low density on specific substrates and their growth observed by living cell microscopy. In a physiological situation, asymmetric division prevails with only one of the two daughter cells prosecuting with multiple rounds of divisions [1]. The transformed stem cell, as in the case of cells derived from …
