Olympus is close to selling its microscope unit to a private equity firm in a deal that could fetch more than ¥300 billion ($2.2 billion), three people with direct knowledge of the matter have said.

Michael Woodford’s book about the Olympus scandal is well worth a read. He only avoided the same fate as Ghosn by contacting the Financial Times, and getting his story out there before the Japanese ...

Maximising the information captured from life and materials science samples is now possible with ease and simplicity, with the new Olympus UC90 microscope camera. Thanks to a range of innovative ...