MBF Bioscience
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Biomedical |
| Founded | 1988 (as MicroBrightField, Inc.) |
| Headquarters | Williston, Vermont, USA[1] |
| Products | Neurolucida, Stereo Investigator, Microlucida, Neurolucida 360, Biolucida, WormLab, BrainMaker |
| Website | MBF Bioscience |
MBF Bioscience is a biotech company that develops software and hardware for bioscience research and biomedical application. MBF Bioscience’s main location is Williston, Vermont, USA, but has offices that market, sell, and supports its line of hardware and software products throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
History
The company was founded as MicroBrightField, Inc. in 1988 by the father and son team of Dr. Edmund Glaser and Jack Glaser. Their goal was to develop neuroanatomical imaging software for the research community. The company changed its name to MBF Bioscience in 2004. It provides solutions for stereology, neuron reconstruction, microscopic and whole slide imaging, brain mapping, worm tracking. Specializing in neuroscience research, their products are used in a variety of fields including stem cell research, neuroanatomical studies, lung, kidney, reproductive, cardiac and toxicology research. Its original product Neurolucida has evolved into Neurolucida 360, a powerful system capable of automatically tracing neurons and detecting somas, dendritic spines and varicosities.
Awards
- Tibbetts Award - 2013
- Best Places to Work in Vermont in 2007,[2] 2009[3] and 2010.[4]
- 2007 Vermont Small Business Person of the Year – Business Administration, which was presented to co-founder Jack Glaser for his outstanding leadership related to his company’s staying power, growth, sales, innovation, and community contributions.
Offices
- USA – Williston, Vermont (Headquarters)
- Europe – Delft, Netherlands
- Japan – Shiroi-shi, Chiba
- China – Hong Kong and Shanghai
Products
Neurolucida: software for 3D neuron tracing and analysis and 3D brain mapping.
Stereo Investigator is a system designed to conduct unbiased stereology studies.
Neurolucida 360 : software for 3D neuron reconstruction, and somas, varicosities, spines and synapses detection.
Biolucida is an image management system for sharing microscope images online.
WormLab is software that tracks and analyzes C. elegans and other nematodes.
BrainMaker generates 3D high-resolution reconstructions from serial sections images.[5]
Microlucida is used for image acquisition.
Lucivid is used in the case of retinal stimulation.
Densita allows researchers to analyze autoradiography and optical density.
Vesselucida: software for 3D microvascular tracing and analysis.
Vesselucida 360: Software that is designed for 3D microvascular reconstruction.
ClearScope: Light sheet theta microscope system that is designed to work with cleared tissue specimens.
TissueScope is a whole slide scanner created in collaboration with Huron Digital Pathology.
Vesalius is a resonant scanning laser confocal system that allows 2D and 3D imaging for mounted and cleared tissue specimens.
References
- ^ "Contact Information". MBF Bioscience. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
- ^ "2007 "Best Places to Work in Vermont"". bestplacestoworkinvt.com. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
- ^ "2009 "Best Places to Work in Vermont"". bestplacestoworkinvt.com. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
- ^ "2010 "Best Places to Work in Vermont"". bestplacestoworkinvt.com. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
- ^ Schneider, David (2015-01-19). "Vermont company has new product to help with brain research". WPTZ. Retrieved 2020-07-21.