“Oh no!”, said Martin our Chairman the other day, “Not ANOTHER shoebox stuffed with LEDs and with a light guide dangling out of one end!”, this being the third such product that he’d seen in as many weeks. Well, at…
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For more years than we care to remember, we have wanted to develop a confocal microscope based on a spatial light modulator, and at long last we have a design that performs well enough for us to commercialise. Would you…
Showcase took place on Wednesday 29th March 2017 Cairn Research came 2nd in the Most Innovative Collaboration competition “The EPSRC funded Research and Training Centre in Physical Sciences for Health was well represented in the finals of the Enterprising Birmingham Innovation…
In which satire elects to take on reality – and loses by a landslide! Our Eternal President Decides to Mend his Ways As this episode in the Cairnland saga is being written, the territory that surrounds our 70 acre enclave…
We enjoyed being at this years NCRG 17. Thank you for coming and chatting with us! Thank you again to Dr Elizabeth Murphy from The National Institutes of Health, for delivering The Cairn Research Keynote lecture at NCRG 17, “Mitochondria: Regulators of…
THE UK MAY BE LEAVING THE EU, BUT WE’RE GOING TO STAY! Today the British Prime Minister, Mrs Theresa May, began the formal process of withdrawing the United Kingdom from the European Union. This is a very sad day…
OR HOW A DEAD TURKEY ALLOWED US TO TAKE A FURTHER STEP FORWARD, AND HOW ANOTHER PROJECT FINALLY CAME INTO FOCUS As I write this, it’s still only February, but next month is just a couple of days away, so…
Enjoyable week with our friends at 89 North / Chroma exhibiting at the biophysical society meeting in New Orleans. We showed the Crest Spinning Disk with the powerful 89 North LDI light source alongside the OptoTIRF configured with a 50um fibre…
