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As imaging systems continue to evolve, OEM developers face increasing pressure to acquire more data while maintaining image quality, reliability, and throughput. Meeting these demands requires more than selecting the right camera or choosing a powerful illumination source. The IDEX Health & Science engineering team behind Melles Griot optical solutions works with OEM developers to integrate illumination, imaging, and autofocus technologies into cohesive optical subsystems that support high-throughput performance across a variety of imaging applications.
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IDEX Health & Science is proud to celebrate Elizabeth Bernhardt, PhD, Senior Application Scientist, on her selection for the 2027 SPIE Women in Optics notebook. This annual publication highlights women across optics, photonics, and STEM who are helping shape the future of science, technology, and innovation. Since 2005, the Women in Optics notebook has showcased inspiring stories from scientists, engineers, researchers, students, and industry leaders around the world, encouraging future generations to explore careers in STEM.
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In life sciences, diagnostics, analytical instrumentation, and medical technology, precision is essential for reliable performance. Instruments that rely on fluid handling, optical detection, or a combination of both require accurate control throughout development. IDEX Health & Science helps OEMs improve performance and reliability through expertise in precision fluidics, optical technologies, fluid management systems, and integrated instrument subsystems.
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Discover how to improve fluorescence imaging performance through smarter optical filter selection and system design. Explore real-world techniques for managing spectral shifts, reducing noise, minimizing autofluorescence, and enhancing image quality.
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Whether your instrument depends on accurate fluid handling, advanced optical detection, or the seamless integration of both technologies, overall performance relies on achieving precise control at every stage of development. At IDEX Health & Science, we help OEMs engineer confidence into their products through expertise in precision fluidics, optical technologies, fluid management systems, and integrated instrument subsystems.
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What is proteomics and how does it differ from genomics? This post will discuss the definitions of proteomics and genomics, how they differ, and how life science applications are benefiting from this new approach to protein analysis.
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For teams developing optical instruments, delays are not always caused by engineering challenges. Sometimes they're caused by not having the components needed to keep work moving forward. While a filter may represent only a small portion of an overall system, its availability can have an outsized impact on project progress. When a necessary optical filter is unavailable, work throughout the development process can slow down or stop entirely. That's where our Quick Ship filter program comes into play. Read more to find out how.
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Learn how compact OEM light engines improve imaging performance, simplify integration, and deliver the precise illumination needed for today's life science, industrial, and semiconductor imaging systems.
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When designing fluorescence imaging, flow cytometry, molecular diagnostics, or analytical instrumentation systems, choosing between an LED and a laser diode is rarely a straightforward decision. Each technology offers distinct performance advantages, but each also introduces optical challenges that can impact system sensitivity, image quality, throughput, thermal management, and overall complexity.
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IDEX Health & Science has partnered with Fudan University in Shanghai, China for the last 12 years for their FIST (Fudan Intensive Summer Teaching) program, which introduces college students to optics and their role in the life sciences. The course topic, entitled: “Application of Modern Microscopic Imaging Technology in the Research of Cell Biology,” has benefitted more than 600 students.
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