How I got into the Flamingo project, a new way of sharing custom-built light sheet microscopes

Posted by Michael Weber, on 12 October 2020

Sharing microscopy technology is crucial for biomedical research. This is the story how I joined Jan Huisken and his team to give other scientists quick access to custom-built light sheet microscopes.

Lessons learned from an open-hardware project in microscopy: The mesoSPIM initiative

Posted by Fabian Voigt, on 1 July 2020

The mesoscale selective plane illumination microscope (mesoSPIM) is a highly versatile open-source light-sheet microscope for imaging large (cm-sized) cleared tissue samples. Using the documentation and software available via mesospim.org and on Github, interested labs can set up their own microscope.  Currently, ten mesoSPIM instruments are in operation around the globe and several more are under