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High-speed camera reveals why lizards use hunting strategies
By recording movies of lizards hunting prey on a pint-size race track, researchers from Ohio...
Headphones could eliminate MRI sounds
MRI scanners can make beeping, whirring and grinding sounds as loud as a jet engine. These sounds...
Errata
The image accompanying the article "Getting to the root of the solution" on page 24 of the February...
Forecasting prostate cancer with MRI
Cancer treatment outcome is notoriously difficult to predict. The disease spreads rapidly in some...
Fluorescent green gel fashioned from hybrid materials
A greenish gel that fluoresces in response to temperature and pH changes has been created by...

Feature Articles
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Overcoming Optical Challenges to Live-Cell TIRF Microscopy
Total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy is a powerful technique. It provides...
Can the Miracles Promised by Carbon Nanotubes Be Realized?
By delivering drugs directly to the source of disease, carbon nanotubes and other nanoparticles...
Robust Optics for Microscopy Applications
The evolution of microscopy from direct human observation to digital image capture has...
Trends in Optical Trapping
The term “optical trapping” is perhaps misleading: It implies little more than grabbing a molecule...

From The Clinic
Laser procedure kills small liver tumors
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common type of liver cancer and often results from a hepatitis...
Heart imaging software differs in performance
Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in the US. Early and accurate detection and...

From The Journals
Imaging the brain in vivo
Researchers from Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and Max Planck...
Purifying water with light
There is water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. This is partially because water can contain...
Mass spectrometry software
Software is being developed to account for error in peptide assignments in semiquantitative...

New Media
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Invitrogen Corp.
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Promega Corp.
Immunology products
Bachem Americas Inc.
Optics brochure
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FRET technology
AnaSpec Inc.
Objectives guide
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
Laser safety
Laser Institute of America

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Fluorescence excitation
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Lumenera Corp.
SD-OCT spectrometer
BaySpec Inc.
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Ocean Optics Inc.
Micromirror device
Texas Instruments Inc.
Dye conjugates
Carestream Molecular Imaging
Cytogenetics
Affymetrix Inc.
FLIM systems
Becker & Hickl GmbH
Linear translation stages
Edmund Optics Inc.
Temperature controllers
Power Technology Inc.
Gene expression
Agilent Technologies Inc.
Microplate washer
MatriCal Inc.
Microfluidics
ALine Inc.
Yellow laser
Coherent Inc.
Low-power lasers
Spectra-Physics
Particle characterization
FEI Co.
Spectrophotometer
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc.
X-ray camera
Rad-icon Imaging Corp.
Microscope stage
Prior Scientific Inc.
Micromanipulator stage
Steinmeyer Inc.
Laser controller
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Amplification reagent
Biomatrica Inc.
Scanning microscope
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Laser diodes
Intense Ltd.
Optical filters
Semrock Inc.
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AnaSpec Inc.
Confocal microscope
Leica Microsystems GmbH
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Arryx Inc.
Diode laser
Dilas
PCR kits
Invitrogen Corp.
Molecular analysis
Olympus America Inc.
OEM diode series
Toptica Photonics AG
FTIR software
ABB Inc.
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UVP LLC
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B&W Tek Inc.
Dermatology server
Lucid Inc.
Nanopositioning stages
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP
Light source
Exalos AG
Doubled optical tables
Newport Corp.
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Point Source Ltd.
Photocoagulator
OptiMedica Corp.
Image sensor
Thomson
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Bruker Daltonics
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Green laser
Del Mar Photonics Inc.
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JEOL
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News and Features
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Mantis shrimps see circularly polarized light
Polarized vision is common in the animal kingdom; however, most organisms that are sensitive to...
Red fluorescent protein derived from Aequorea victoria GFP
Despite what some say, it’s easy being green. Red, on the other hand, can be difficult. At least,...
Video microscopy reveals that bacteria swim to food
with surprising speed

Because phytoplankton use carbon dioxide in photosynthesis, scientists and engineers have thought...
Three-dimensional microscopy reveals unusual cells
Although Fuji apples generally have good storage properties, they tend to turn brown inside when in...
Diagnosing disease with spectral imaging
Spectral imaging holds promise for a range of diagnostic applications. It could be used to...
Early disease detection through quantum dots
Detecting diseases such as cancer in their initial stages can mean the difference between life and...
Mass spectrometry technique may aid drug discovery
Nonribosomal peptides and similar natural products have an unparalleled track record in...
MRI techniques capture dopamine neurons in brain stem
Commonly used functional MRI protocols are not suitable for directly measuring blood oxygen...
Micro-LEDs show promise for biology
As LEDs of varying shapes and sizes find their way into myriad applications, researchers are...
Biophotonics News
The University of Nottingham in the UK has launched the Institute of Biophysics, Imaging and...
Carl Zeiss Opens Singapore Imaging Center
Carl Zeiss AG of Oberkochen, Germany, has opened Carl Zeiss Advanced Imaging Centre Singapore,...
QuantRx Biomed Begins Blood Imaging Trials
QuantRx Biomedical Corp. of Doylestown, Pa., has announced that Phase 1 trials have begun for the...
BioPharmica Ltd. signs agreement with Swinburne University of Technology
BioPharmica Ltd. of North Perth has signed a collaboration agreement with Swinburne University of...
Diachemix, BioTek Instruments in Distribution Pact
Agricultural diagnostics company Diachemix LLC of Milwaukee and BioTek Instruments Inc. of...
Berthold Tech Wins Cisbio Certification
Berthold Technologies of Bad Wildbad, Germany, a provider of analytical instruments for the...
Ophthalmaic Imaging, MediVisION Medical Merge
Ophthalmic Imaging Systems (OIS) of Sacramento, Calif., a digital imaging company, has signed a...
Siemens Healthcare to Market Carestream System
Siemens Healthcare of Malvern, Pa., has signed an agreement that will enable it to market a...
Beijing Genomics, Pentabase Boost Collaboration
Beijing Genomics Institute has increased its collaboration with PentaBase of Soendersoe, Denmark, a...
MaiQTech, Spawns MagiQ Research Labs
MagiQ Technologies Inc. of New York, a quantum information processing company, has created a...
Nottingham U Launches Bio, Imaging Institute
The University of Nottingham in the UK has launched the Institute of Biophysics, Imaging and...
Invitrogen Named Distributor for MitoSciences
Invitrogen Corp. of Carlsbad, Calif., a provider of life sciences technologies for research,...

Post Scripts
Imaging microscopic beauty
Beautiful images can be found on any scale, from telescopic photographs of distant stars to...

Research
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Double the image, double the data
A new biomedical instrument allows a successful, simultaneous combination of MRI and PET, achieving...
Optically tracking transmissions in the brain
Scientists researching the many mechanisms behind learning, memory and other activities of the...
Boosting FRET sensitivity
Although Förster resonance energy transfer is well suited to the investigation of protein...
Uncovering why a blue fluorescent antibody is so bright
Researchers at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., have teased out why one of a group...
Metal-enhanced fluorescence could aid photodynamic therapy
Photodynamic therapy uses light-activated chemicals to treat diseases such as cancer and...
Laser ablation experiments challenge century-old belief
The centriole is an unusual organelle that does not have an outer membrane and that exists freely...

Technology Solutions
Pathology screening, in more ways than one
Two heads often are better than one, it is said. However, the old adage does not go far enough, at...
CT and robots join forces in the surgical suite
Dr. J. Fritz Angle and colleagues at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville...