June 10, 2022 All Publications

New article about an efficient light collection by the cornea of the horseshoe crab

Trace of their ancestors can be traced from 485.4 million to 443.8 million years, which is why they are being referred to as living fossils sometimes...

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June 9, 2022 All Publications

New publication in cancer research using QPI

The incidence of death caused by cancer has been increasing worldwide. The growth of cancer cells is not the main problem. The majority of deaths

Read more May 5, 2022 All Publications

Cancer cell viscoelasticity measurement by quantitative phase and flow stress induction

Tomáš Vičar,  Michal Masarik, Ivo Provaznik, Vratislav Cmiel, Larisa Chmelikova, Radim Kolar, Jiri Chmelik and Jaromir Gumelec presented an approach...

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Cancer Cells Viscoelasticity Measurement by Quantitative Phase and Flow Stress Induction

Tomáš Vičar and his team present an approach for viscoelasticity measurement using QPI and shear stress induction by fluid flow. It allows...

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New publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

M. Fojtů, et al.: Silicane Derivative Increases Doxorubicin Efficacy in an Ovarian Carcinoma Mouse Model: Fighting Drug Resistance...

Read more June 4, 2021 All Publications

Self-Supervised Pretraining for Transferable Quantitative Phase Image Cell Segmentation

Even though QPI data are suitable for cell instance segmentation there are still challenging cases to be solved (like populated areas of touching cells)...

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Oxidized polysaccharides for anticancer-drug delivery: What is the role of structure?

A new publication from Lukáš Münster and his team, released in April 2021 in the Carbohydrate Polymers journal...

Read more January 12, 2021 All Publications

New article recognizing quantitative phase microscopy

A precise label-free method to measure the shape and composition of model condensates has been published by Brugués and Hyman labs from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.

Read more December 9, 2020 All Publications

New Article: Roadmap to holography

Journal of Optics has come with a wonderful overview of international activities in the field of holography - an exciting area of research leading to a wide range of innovations...

Read more December 2, 2020 All Publications

New scientific articles published based on usage of multimodal microscope Q-Phase

Holographic microscope Q-Phase is used by scientists of Masaryk University to clarify various cell-related questions. Recently, they published...

Read more August 18, 2020 All Publications

Quantitative phase imaging of spreading fibroblasts identifies the role of focal adhesion kinase in the stabilization of the cell rear

Scientists from the Czech Academy of Science, Institute of Microbiology, have currently published an article in Biomolecules journal, that exhibits...

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New article: A label-free assessment of cell death

For a label-free assessment of cell death without disrupting the routine culture, a new article released using Q-Phase as a robust instrument to detect and differentiate...

Read more October 15, 2019 All Publications

Comparison of cell segmentation methods for label-free microscopy: Q-Phase between the best

An excellent comparison of the state-of-the-art cell segmentation methods for label-free microscopy has been lately done by scientists of Masaryk University...

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