HIV, cancer, malaria, and more, up close--plus some non-killers, to show what this new microscopy system can do.
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At three Australian universities, a new tool is allowing researchers to see things that have never been seen before. GE's superfancy new microscope, the DeltaVision OMX Blaze, is designed to see deep into cells to learn exactly how diseases work. Says GE:
The OMX, which GE launched in late 2011, uses a combination of optics and powerful computer algorithms to crash though the diffraction barrier, long thought as the limit for the resolution of optical microscopes. (The barrier stops microscopes from distinguishing between two objects separated by less than approximately half the wavelength of light used to image them.) The GE technique, called 3D structured illumination microscopy (SIM), more than doubles the resolution in all three dimensions. The result is that the OMX can see objects as small as 100 nanometers, ten times smaller than the typical germ.
They've been specifically looking at malignant items in the body: cancerous cells, viruses like HIV, and dangerous bacteria. Click through to our gallery to see these killers in more detail than you've ever seen before.
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So "General Electric" has finally waited long enough to copy Dr. Royal Rife's Ultraviolet Microscope.
This technology was developed it the 1930's and was successfully able to extend viewing of live tissue at greater magnification than the Electron Microscope could view dead cells due to the metallic processing required.
Dr. Rife was ostracized by G.E. and the AMA and his machine discredited, as it was used in conjunction with his radio frequency treatment of viral illness.
Quite simply using the observation method, Dr. Rife was able to selectively target the virus and determine its resonant frequency visually. In this way, using a resonant frequency transmitter, he could specifically destroy the virus without medicine.
this was supressed by the AMA and by G.E. (who had spent a great deal of money on perfecting it's "electron microscope" which would have been usless had Dr. Rife's methods been used. Also the need for anti botics again for hte most part wouldhave been unnecessary, as Dr. Rife could selectively target and destroy the virus without damaging surrounding tissue.
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