Infinity Corrected Objectives are microscope objectives that focus at infinity. They offer long working distances, along with the ability to place optical components, such as optical lenses or optical filters, into the optical path. Infinity Corrected Objectives feature higher resolutions than Finite Conjugate Objectives, but are heavier and more expensive.

Multi-element objectives are critical for any microscopy technique, including many diagnostic techniques for the brain. Understanding the different types of objectives is important in order to ensure you are using the correct objective for your application.

In this week's Community Spotlight, we dive into all sorts of fun projects including Ancient Greeks, Mars Attacks and a bookish solution to storage.

James Morris' Midgard Heroic Battles is now available to pre-order from Reisswitz Press ahead of its November release date. You can get your hands on just the Rulebook or you can get a bundle which comes with MDF Tokens for use in battle!

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We take a look inside possibly the best way to get started in the new 10mm wargame, Armoured Clash, by Warcradle Studios. The Battle For Singapore - Two Player Introductory Set is a great way for you and a friend to begin playing Armoured Clash.

James Morris, the man behind the awesome new Fantasy wargame Midgard Heroic Battles was nice enough to give us a look inside the book! For those not aware, Midgard Heroic Battles allows you to play out heroic battles from history, myth and legend (and everything in between) in various scales and with whatever miniatures you have access to.

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Electrophysiology technique allowing the study of single and multiple ion channels in neurons, cardiomyocytes, muscle fibers, and other cells.

John dives into a painting tutorial for Armoured Clash, showing off how to paint the Empire Laoshan Land Ship from the 10mm wargame by Warcradle Studios. The techniques used here could be applied to the rest of your Empire army that you'll be painting for Armoured Clash.

Gerry is joined once again by James and Parker from Warcradle Studios to show off a full Let's Play of Armoured Clash using the launch miniatures from the Crown and the Empire. Dive into this awesome 10mm wargame and see how a full game plays!

Warcradle Studios has previewed the upcoming Union forces coming to the 10mm battlefields of Armoured Clash in November! A brand new Battlegroup Starter Set is on the way alongside an Introductory Set for those wanting to test the waters of this ace wargame.

Reflective Objectives are microscope objectives that use two mirrors to form an image or focus a laser in microscopy applications requiring chromatic correction over broad spectral ranges.

Gale Force Nine and Thunderhead Studio's Battlefield In A Box-style range of battle-ready terrain is now available for you to both order and pre-order over on their webstore. If you're looking to set up 28mm to 35mm Sci-Fi battlefields then you've got plenty to dive into plus some great options for epic-scale games as well.

Warcradle Studios, Wayland Games and OnTableTop will bring you insight into the excellent NEW 10mm Pulp/Steampunk miniatures wargame Armoured Clash! Our themed week starts Monday 30th September where we'll be diving into how-to-play tutorials, battle reports, unboxings, painting tutorials, interviews and more.

Gerry interviews Chris from the Warcradle Studios design team to discuss the way that they crafted the new miniatures for 10mm wargame, Armoured Clash! They go into the process of designing the miniatures from concept and render stages through to the final product and how that miniature becomes a reality in resin or plastic.

Warcradle Studios has been previewing more of the characters, vehicles and troops coming to Armoured Clash, their new 10mm wargame. With the Union on the horizon, Warcradle are also looking ahead to the Imperium and the Alliance coming in 2025.

Many optical diagnostic techniques are used to examine, diagnose, and treat medical condiditons for example of the brain including laser-based microscopy, and optogenetics.

Gerry gets stuck into an unboxing and review of the awesome 10mm scale Ashigaru that you can get your hands on from Wargames Atlantic. Their Grand Battle Scale range contains some amazing plastic miniatures for those wanting to dive into Historical wargaming.

Gerry interviews James M. Hewitt and Parker from the Warcradle Studios design team to discuss the rules of 10mm wargame, Armoured Clash. They talk about designing the rules and the process of bringing the game to the tabletop as well as some fun morsels of information that should get you excited about how Armoured Clash plays.

Biological technique that involves the use of light to control cells in living tissue, specifically neurons, in most cases that have been genetically modified with photoreceptors that react to different wavebands.

Fluorescence filter sets are particularly important in separating the excitation light from the emitted fluorescence and commonly consist of a combination of an excitation (typically bandpass), dichroic (sometimes referred to as dichroic mirror or dichromatic beamsplitter), and emission (bandpass or longpass) filter with transmission profiles optimized to match the spectral characteristics of certain fluorophores.

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Fluorescence microscopy is one of the primary techniques used to study the functional or morphological dynamics of synaptic structures, including dendritic spines and axon terminals, and to characterize circuit connectivity and dynamics. Typically, a laser beam is focused into a pinhole, acting as a point source illuminator. Spatially filtered light is reflected by a dichroic filter, which may or may not require a beam expander to fill the entire aperture of the objective. The objective then focuses excitation energy onto the sample, which emits a weaker fluorescence signal collected by the same objective. This emission light is transmitted through the dichroic filter into the secondary tube lens and then passes through a final pinhole before detection by a CCD or CMOS sensor. Ideally, both pinholes are located in conjugate image plans on the optical axis, which allows the images to overlap perfectly on the object plane. Since confocal microscopes observe a very thin, small spot in the object plane, it is important to sample light via a scanning system or motorized actuator to collect an array of images. These images are then reconstructed into 2D or 3D images.

Severe inflammation of the brain and spinal cord membranes that is typically onset by an infection and leads to fever, headache, and neck stiffness.

Method of making brain tissue transparent using hydrogels. Accompanied with antibodies or biomarkers, highly detailed pictures of nucleic structure of the brain can be determined and studied.

Now that Armoured Clash has been out in the world for a few weeks, we have a sit-down chat with the designers behind this 10mm wargame to discuss some of the top tactical tips that you can use to get the best out of your armies on the tabletop.

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Join us for an unboxing of just one of the ways that you can get started in the new 10mm wargame from Warcradle Studios, Armoured Clash. Watch our review of the Empire Faction Battlegroup Starter Set that will have you getting stuck into the game with one of two launch factions.

Microscopy techniques such as fluorescence, confocal, multiphoton, and super resolution microscopy are used for the study of synapses, neurons, and neural circuits in brain slices.

Gerry takes a look inside the first of the Introductory Sets from Warcradle Studios for their 10mm wargame, Armoured Clash. These provide you with tasters for Armoureed Clash for both the Empire and the Crown alongside Quickstart Rules so you can begin playing easily.

Neuroscience technique intended to map and list out the specific quantities or properties of the brain in a spatial representation. In other terms, the anatomy and function of the brain, spine, and central nervous system through imaging techniques.

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Fluorescence imaging is a powerful, highly sensitive and non-invasive technique used in life sciences to visualize and monitor biological processes in live or fixed cells, tissues, or even complete organisms. Fluorescence is the emission of radiation, visible or invisible, by a substance such as a fluorescent dye (also called fluorophores or chromophores), upon excitation with light or other electromagnetic radiation. There are a wide range of fluorescent dyes and proteins commercially available that can be used to label biological structures with high specificity. Fluorescence imaging techniques can be divided into spectroscopic and microscopic fluorescence methods. Applications based on spectral detection include qPCR, DNA sequencing, high-throughput screening, or flow cytometry. Fluorescence microscopy techniques commonly used in biomedical research laboratories include epifluorescence, confocal, multiphoton, TIRF (total internal reflectance fluorescence), super-resolution (SIM, STORM, PALM, STED), or light sheet microscopy, as well as fluorescence lifetime imaging. The most suitable technique will depend on multiple factors including the level of two- or three-dimensional resolution, imaging speed, imaging depth, or the number of colour channels required, but all utilize the same fluorescence mechanism to observe biological processes.

The most common type of traumatic brain injury, onset by heavy impact resulting in the brain shaking or moving inside the skull.

Warcradle Studios and Wayland Games are now taking pre-orders for the Armoured Clash launch range! This excellent 10mm wargame will kick off with The Crown and The Empire doing battle for Singapore and there's much more to come in the months following the release at the end of September.

Join us for a trip to Hobbiton as well as an exploration of some epic projects including a bit of Armoured Clash and some epic-scale Star Wars. You will be blown away by these lovely projects!

Achromatic Objectives are microscope objectives that correct for chromatic aberration in red and blue wavelengths, and spherical aberration in the green wavelength. Achromatic Objectives are lighter and cheaper than Apochromatic Objectives, but do not have as much correction for chromatic aberration, spherical aberration, and field flatness.

Inherited, incurable condition that causes nerve cells in the brain to break down over time, causing jerky body movements and eventually the inability to talk.

Join us for Cult Of Games XLBS! In this week's show, after getting excited about designing it Warren gets his tool out to show off to the guys and you'll be amazed at what he can do with it.

Armoured Clash launches soon and October will feature more releases for those looking to bolster and reinforce the armies of the Empire and the Crown in this 10mm wargame by Warcradle Studios. See what's coming out to support your larger armies...

Gerry gets stuck into an unboxing and review of the 10mm scale Samurai from Wargames Atlantic. These miniatures for their Grand Battle Scale collection are perfect for those looking to try out some epic-scale Historical battles.

Finite Conjugate Objectives are microscope objectives that do not require a secondary lens to focus onto a specimen. They are typically optimized for use in the visible spectrum and contain up to four lens elements.

Doing a much better job that Games Workshop and their roadmaps, Warcradle Studios released some details on what's coming up for Armoured Clash, their brand new 10mm wargame, for the rest of 2024 and into 2025. There are lots of fun things on the horizon.

Cancerous or non-cancerous growths of abnormal cells in the brain with a variety of severity levels and types including astrocytoma, blastoma, ependymoma, and meningioma.

Join the team as they show off building our first Armoured Clash table for use with the 10mm wargame coming later this year from Warcradle Studios. In the second and final part of the build video, we show off the painting techniques used on the Dystopian Age Terrain and the finished product!

If you've wanted to get your hands on the rules for Armoured Clash to see if this new 10mm wargame is for you, you can now download the rules and more from the folks at Warcradle Studios.

John dives into a painting tutorial for Armoured Clash giving you a teaser of the awesome 10mm miniatures Warcradle Studios have coming up for release later this year! John shows you how to paint the Spitfire Rocketeers from The Crown faction in Armoured Clash.

Gerry is joined by James and Parker from Warcradle Studios to show you how to play the new 10mm wargame Armoured Clash. Learn how to play Warcradle Studios new game using miniatures from the Crown and Empire factions!

John dives into a painting tutorial for Armoured Clash, showing off how to paint the Crown Sovereign Land Ship from the 10mm wargame by Warcradle Studios. The techniques used here could be applied to the rest of your Crown army that you'll be painting for Armoured Clash.

Join the team as they show off building our first Armoured Clash table for use with the 10mm wargame coming later this year from Warcradle Studios. We start off with some awesome 10mm Dystopian Age Terrain that will form the starting point for the project alongside some neat 3D-printed elements.

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Henry Turner of Turner Miniatures is going to be coming to Kickstarter again soon with a brand new campaign called Battleground 1940: Blitzkrieg. This will be a 6-15 mm-based campaign looking to introduce both German and British armies as STL files for use in your tabletop wargames set during World War II.

It's OTTWeekender time! Join us this week as we round out Orktober with a bang and have a look at what could possibly be the best Fantasy Orcs that we've ever seen. These Orcs popped up on Kickstarter and they look insanely good and could well be the perfect Fantasy Orc Miniatures for starting a new army.

Spellcrow has released an awesome new monstrous miniature for players of their 10mm Fantasy wargame, Argatoria. The terrifying Hydra is ready to support Sheol-morg armies on the tabletop.

Below are common ailments of the brain that are detected by advanced diagnostic techniques such as fluorescence microscopy. Advancements in microscope objectives and other optical components allow these ailments to be more easily detected and treated.

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Warcradle Studios are putting together a series of videos looking into the background and lore of the factions you'll be able to play as in Armoured Clash. The first video is now out and covers The Empire and who they are as a faction.

Spellcrow has another new 10mm Fantasy army for you to snap up for use in their wargame, Argatoria. You can get yourself started with Gaeldor as your faction of choice with the Gaeldor Army Starter Bundle.

A genetically encoded calcium indicator used in brain imaging. GCaMP is similar to the fusion of green fluorescent protein (GFP), calmodulin, and a peptide sequence from myosin.

In this week's Cult Of Games XLBS, we dive into a bit more of our hobby that we've been up to and Warren brings up the subject of a tidy workspace, a tidy mind! Do you have to organise your workspace to get anything done or do you thrive in the chaos?

Progressive and incurable type of dementia that destroys memory and other important mental functions, beginning slowly and worsening over time.

Medical condition caused when blood supply to the brain is interrupted for an extended period of time, resulting in muscle weakness on one side of the body, loss of face control, numbness, and speech issues.

It's OTTWeekender time! In this week's episode, we're having a look at the awesome new 2-player starter set that you can pre-order for Steamforged Games' Warmachine. With amazing new hard plastic miniatures for Khador and Cygnar, this is looking like the best starting point for someone wanting to dive into the latest edition of the game.

It's OTTWeekender time! With Orktober just around the corner, we dive into some of the awesome miniatures that Kromlech has been showing off for possibly the best month in the wargaming calendar. They have some awesome new characters, troops, vehicles and more that you can use to make your Sci-Fi Orc armies in 28mm look great!

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John dives into a painting tutorial for Armoured Clash giving you a teaser of the awesome 10mm miniatures Warcradle Studios have coming up for release later this year! John shows you how to paint the Jezzails from The Empire faction in Armoured Clash.

To finish Armoured Clash Week, Gerry talks with James and Parker about what the future holds for Warcradle Studios new 10mm wargame. What factions are coming soon, what miniatures are on the horizon and where would the team like to take the game?

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a specialized protein consisting of a specific group of amino acids that glows green when exposed to UV or blue light. Extracted from marine life, the most common excitation wavelength is 395nm to 475nm with emission peaks from 509nm to 525nm. GFP is widely used in non-invasive fluorescence imaging systems to detect tumor growth, apoptosis, and other cellular activity.

Join us for an unboxing of just one of the ways that you can get started in the new 10mm wargame from Warcradle Studios, Armoured Clash. Watch our review of the Crown Faction Battlegroup Starter Set that will have you getting stuck into the game with one of two launch factions.

Wargames Atlantic dropped a bunch of news covering a new game and miniatures range and ways for you to get your hands on more of their miniatures from Atlantic Digital. We start with the news about 10mm Classic Fantasy Battles!

Wargames Atlantic's Rob Macfarlane has been hard at work and the next Grand Battle Scale range is coming together rather nicely! The 10mm Azincourt Medieval range looks to be coming to tabletops sooner rather than later!

Apochromatic Objectives are microscope objectives that feature better color correction than Achromatic Objectives over a broad wavelength range (VIS to NIR), along with better spherical correction and field flatness. However, they are heavier and more expensive than Achromatic Objectives.

It's OTTWeekender time! Despite the news that so many old miniatures are leaving the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game range, many more are coming to replace them and it looks like GW are rebuilding the game and the range ahead of the release of the brand new film, The War Of The Rohirrim, set before the time of The Lord Of The Rings!