Nikon Instruments Inc. introduced the LV-UDM Universal Design Microscope, comes with a newly designed turret condenser and motorized nosepiece. Perfectly incorporated for use in bioscience and material science applications the LV-UDM's turret condenser supports transmitted bright field, dark field, differential interference contrast (DIC), and phase contrast observation techniques. The motorized/manual operation or a separate focus module for applications requiring working distances up to 102mm makes it much more convenient to configure the microscope. The microscope supports digital image capture and image processing using the Nikon DS series cameras and NIS-Elements software for Extended Depth of Focus (IDF) images, image archiving and reporting.