Date Time How La Trobe is transforming microscopy La Trobe researchers have developed an innovative microscope slide prototype thanks to a new nanotechnology tool unveiled in Melbourne. Australia’s Minister for Education and Youth, the Hon Alan Tudge, today officially unveiled a EULITHA Phabler 100, the latest addition to the Australian National Fabrication Facility‘s (ANFF) portfolio of open access research and development capabilities. The new half-a-million-dollar tool is available, through ANFF, to industry and academia to enable production of nanoscale devices, and to allow developing companies to establish a foothold in their relevant markets. The Phabler, a high-throughput nanopatterning system capable of processing hundreds of components a day, was acquired to initially support La Trobe Professor Brian Abbey and colleagues scale up their smart microscope slides that can be used to more accurately diagnose cancer.