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CINT wins R&D 100 award!

By Tatjana K. Rosev
July 7, 2008

Cutting-edge innovations garnered Los Alamos researchers two of R&D Magazine's prestigious R&D 100 Awards. The awards, which will be presented October 16 in Chicago, recognize the top 100 industrial innovations worldwide in 2008. Winning Laboratory projects are the 3-D Tracking Microscope and Laser-Weave technology.

"Congratulations to our R&D 100 award-winners for this acknowledgement of scientific excellence," said Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio. "The awards demonstrate that the Laboratory continues to be at the forefront of developing innovative concepts and translating them into practical applications."

This year's awards bring Los Alamos's total to 107 since the Laboratory began entering the competition in 1978.

3-D Tracking Microscope
Los Alamos researchers have developed the 3-D tracking microscope, the only confocal microscope capable of following the motion of nanometer sized objects, such as quantum dots, organic fluorophores, single green fluorescent proteins, as they move through 3-dimensional space at rates faster than many intracellular transport processes. The 3-D tracking microscope was developed by Jim Werner of Los Alamos's Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (MPA-CINT).