The utility of fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) for identifying bacteria in
complex mineral matrices was investigated. Baseline signals from unlabelled Bacillus …

Fluorescence-imaging techniques are now being applied to single bacterial cells for the
determination of in vivo kinase and transcription activity, protein–protein interactions, protein …

Recent advances in optical imaging have dramatically expanded the capabilities of the light
microscope and its usefulness in microbiology research. Some of these advances include …

In addition to the inherent interest stemming from their ecological and human health impacts,
microbes have many advantages as model organisms, including ease of growth and …

Single dye fluorescent staining (with a membrane-associated dye such as FM 1-43 or FM 4-
64) and the combination of differences in both intensity and spectral emission discriminate …

Chemical probes have been instrumental in microbiology since its birth as a discipline in the
19th century when chemical dyes were used to visualize structural features of bacterial cells …

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a technique in which the mean
fluorescence lifetime of a chromophore is measured at each spatially resolvable element of …

The invention pertains to a high resolution imaging microscope, and more speci? cally, to a
digital imaging spectrophotometer (DIS) con? gured to enable the direct determination of the …

The present invention concerns a spectrometric technique to determine microorganism
detection and identification by taking advantage of the inherent extracellular enzymes …