Virology

All the articles in our blog about Virology

Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Applications of Lipid Nanoparticles (LNPs) in Nanomedicine

You would have heard of lipid nanoparticles... those vesicles used to develop mRNA vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic – but what other applications do they have? 

Join Michele from Izon Science as she looks into the world of Lipid...

Monday, May 8, 2023
Nano Drug Delivery Development  with Hyperspectral Microscopy Wednesday, May 10th - 9am CDT / 4 pm CET

CytoViva’s Hyperspectral Microscopy is a highly effective tool for the development of nanoscale vectors for drug delivery. It not only provides label free imaging of these nanoscale vectors and their active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), but also enables...

Monday, January 9, 2023
XXVII SCHOOL OF PURE AND APPLIED BIOPHYSICS - Extracellular Vesicles: from biophysical to translational challenges

Venezia | 6-10 febbraio 2023

Come visit us at our stand at the "XXVII SCHOOL OF PURE AND APPLIED BIOPHYSICS - Extracellular vesicles: from biophysical challenges to translational challenges" event in Venice, from 6 to 9 february. We will present you our scientific and technological offer: new frontiers for your scientific...

Friday, December 30, 2022
QuantitatEVs: Multiscale analyses, from bulk to single vesicle

Come visit us at the QuantitatEVs workshop in Trento, from the 31st of January to the 2nd of February! We'll have a booth and we'll do a presentation with our partner Izon Science, one of the worldwide leading company in the market of the EV research field.

We'll be there with other...

Wednesday, November 16, 2022
34th AICC ANNUAL CONFERENCE – Organoids models of human diseases

Aula Bottazzi - Università della Campania - Sant'Andrea delle Dame - Via L. De Crecchio 7, 80138 Napoli

CONFERENCE AIMS
Organoid technology currently represents a fundamental tool for both basic and translational research.
Their potential to faithfully recapitulate human disease is the key for biomedical research in the present and in a near future.
The aim of this...

Thursday, July 21, 2022
Tomocube launches World’s First High-Resolution Holotomography Microscope with an Incoherent Light Source

Ground-breaking technology unlocks label-free 3D and 4D live cell imaging on standard imaging plates for higher-throughput and automated screening applications

A novel optical microscope utilizing incoherent light to generate holographic images of unlabelled live cells...

Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Three-dimensional refractive index and phase map of P. knowlesi-infected RBCs.

Alterations in Plasmodium knowlesi-infected red blood cells were studied using TOMOCUBE, INC.'s HT-1H, published in BMC Parasites & Vectors.

From...

Friday, October 8, 2021
A running measurement on the Exoid - Next generation TRPS instrument.

A running measurement on the Exoid - Next generation TRPS instrument. 

TRPS continues to provide a pathway to obtaining precise insights into the physical parameters of nanoparticles in biological samples, pharmaceutical products and more. Here, we share a brief wrap-up of recent, peer-reviewed, TRPS-related publications we thought you might be interested in.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
The next generation tunable resistive pulse sensing (TRPS) instrument

We're excited to announce the worldwide launch of the Exoid - the next generation tunable resistive pulse sensing (TRPS) instrument. After years in development, the Exoid incorporates the proven accuracy of TRPS into a semi-automated system with improved sensitivity and usability.

Monday, November 23, 2020
 Il ruolo delle vescicole extracellulari nella comunicazione cellula-cellula nel contesto della malattia

Extracellular vesicles have been shown to contribute to the metastasis of melanoma and to the spread of viral infection. We discuss their potential in diagnostics and personalised medicine.

With the rapid expansion of the field of extracellular vesicle (EV) research,...

Monday, October 26, 2020
 Come misurare in maniera precisa e affidabile le tue nanoparticelle (vescicole extracellulari, esosomi, ecc...) con la TRPS

TRPS is the only technology which accurately delivers concentration of particles per unit volume across a defined particle size, accurate size distribution of these particles and simultaneous measurement of particle surface charge. Thus, reagent quality and sample preparation...

Monday, May 18, 2020
Webinar/Virtual Symposium - 27/05/2020 - Applications of Atomic Force Microscopy in Virology Research

Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 from 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT  (3:00 PM - 5:00 PM GMT)

An online virtual symposium sponsored by Oxford Instruments Asylum Research on Applications of Atomic Force Microscopy in Virology Research. The symposium will feature a panel of...

Thursday, April 30, 2020
Advancing Virology Research with High-Resolution AFM Imaging

Cypher VRS Video-Rate AFM

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is a uniquely powerful tool for virology research. High-resolution imaging techniques, including both AFM and electron microscopy, can easily resolve the size and shape of virus particles and even the organization of capsomeres in their capsid protein shells...

Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Vaccine & Virus Formulation with TRPS technology: the Izon Science's way.

Analyse thousands of viral particles in just 15 minutes.

TRPS enables rapid quantitation and analysis of individual virus particles in real-time, ideal for assessment of viral titre and aggregation. Measurement takes a matter of minutes and each measurement only requires 40µL  of sample...

Thursday, March 19, 2020
Whole blood sample from subject experiencing viral infection symptoms. Note, bluish viral particles present throughout the image

Figure 1. Whole blood sample from subject experiencing viral infection symptoms. Note, bluish viral particles present throughout the image

CytoViva’s Enhanced Darkfield Hyperspectral Microscopy has been demonstrated to provide label free detection of virus particles in complex biological environments. Most notable was a publication demonstrating hyperspectral mapping of the H1N1 virus in epithelial lung cells.1

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Monday, May 8, 2017
Enhanced Darkfield Hyperspectral Microscopy - Cytoviva at Nanosafety 2017

Today, hundreds of labs involved in nanomaterials synthesis, nano-drug delivery, nano-toxicology and related research use CytoViva’s technology: Enhanced Darkfield Hyperspectral Microscopy enables optical observation and spectral characterization of a wide range of nanomaterials...

Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Milan, November 3rd – 4th 2016 - "Pharmaceutical innovations: academy meeting industry"

This workshop is an important annual event for scientists in the drug delivery area, with a quite high number of partecipants in charge of research projects and group leaders both of academia and industry.
Moreover this workshop has an international profile, since at least...

Monday, July 4, 2016
Nanomedicines: Materials, Manufacturing & Therapeutic Applications

Join the Precision NanoSystems Team for a LIVE broadcast of our Nanomedicines Symposium: Materials, Manufacture and Therapeutic Applications. 

Scientific leaders will unite at the symposium to discuss the latest applications, results, and best practices in nanoparticle research and...

Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Dr. Marc-Andre Dansereau - Sherbrooke University

"Lipid Nanoparticle delivery of siRNA to unravel chronic pain"

In this webinar, Dr. Marc-Andre Dansereau from the Université de Sherbrooke will describe how RNAi was used to better understand how the CCL2 chemokine and its receptor, CCR2, contribute to the development of...

Wednesday, February 24, 2016
5th Izon Science Research Symposium Announcement - Merton College - Oxford

We are delighted to invite you to the 5th Izon Science Research Symposium.

Date: 1st and 2nd September, 2016

Venue: Merton College, Oxford, UK.

Last year’s symposium was a tremendous success with over 15 presentations from...

Friday, July 10, 2015
IZON Science qNano

A recent publication by the group of Professor Yin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison highlights the advantages of TRPS for the characterisation of viruses (bullet-shaped, about 100nm size). TRPS results were compared to TEM, the current benchmark for virion...