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Swine Flu: Pandemic or Hyperbole?
By the time you read this, the tale of the swine flu virus likely will have played out, and we will...

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These optical fibers could save lives
A start-up company is developing fibers that could provide real-time information as cardiologists...
The Long and Short of Biomedical Imaging
What you can’t see can hurt you. Cancer and other diseases can remain undetected until it’s too...
Making cells stick to a nonstick surface
Teflon’s nonstick properties make it ideal for more than pots and pans. The material, also known as...
Optical Tweezers: Empowering Biology with the Force of Light
Over the past few years, optical tweezers increasingly have been used to answer questions of...
The Stimulus Package and You
On Tuesday, Feb. 17, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...

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Nanopositioning
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Linear motion
HaydonKerk Motion Solutions
Laser safety
Laser Institute of America
Protein analysis
Wyatt Technology Corp.
Cell health
Invitrogen Corp.

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860-nm SLEDs
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Spectronics Corp.
NCCD camera
Andor Technology plc
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B&W Tek Inc.
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Wyatt Technology Corp.
UV lasers
Coherent Inc.
Pulse generator
Berkeley Nucleonics Corp.
AFM
Agilent Technologies Inc.
Profilometer
NanoFocus AG
EMCCD cameras
Princeton Instruments
Gamma correction
Imperx Inc.
Flow cytometry system
Beckman Coulter Inc.
FIB/SEM workstation
Carl Zeiss SMT
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Paraytec Ltd.
Spectrophotometers
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
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BaySpec Inc.
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Carl Zeiss Ltd.
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News and Features
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Checking up on virtual patients
As part of a research project on game-based learning, third-year medical students at Imperial...
Are you sure that’s organic?
Organic foods are in great demand, and consumers are willing to pay higher prices for the...
State-of-the-art technology maps the way to brain and spine surgery
Sacred Heart Hospital is one of 17 hospitals in the world equipped with a configuration of...
Handheld microscope diagnoses skin cancer
Tissue changes in appearance before full-blown cancer develops. If doctors notice odd-looking...
Satellite keeps an eye on beetles
In the early nineteenth century, a small Eurasian tree was imported into the US for ornamental use...
New technique gets under people’s skin
Researchers have designed a real-time imaging system that could advance physical rehabilitation for...
Eye on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Diagnosis of a medical condition whose symptoms vary can be tricky: Without specific tests, it can...
Technology advances drive MRI imaging scanner market
Technological breakthroughs will help the MRI imaging scanner market weather the economic downturn,...
Applied Biosystems
In Carlsbad, Calif., Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies Corp., has selected the...
Meiji Techno UK
Meiji Techno UK, based in Axbridge, has opened a new training and demonstration facility in the...
Hybrigenics
Biopharmaceutical company Hybrigenics, based in Paris, has signed a contract as part of the...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. of Philadelphia has signed a partnership agreement with Symyx...
Roche Group
Roche Group of Basel, Switzerland, has acquired Genentech of San Francisco. All of the latter...
CLC bio
CLC bio of Aarhus, Denmark, has agreed to provide its entire suite of bioinformatics tools to the...
Hologic Inc.
Bedford, Mass.-based Hologic Inc. has received FDA approval for two of its tests for the human...
MatriCal Bioscience
MatriCal Bioscience of Spokane, Wash., and Process Analysis and Automation of Farnborough, UK, have...

Post Scripts
All together now!
For many years, silver chloride was the gold standard of photographic printing. The chemical’s high...