Photonics.com | BioPhotonics | Volume 20 (2013)

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Q&A: Market Growing Slowly for PDT Photodynamic therapy holds promise for cancer treatment and more, but it has yet to make a strong mo...	Putting the ‘Early’ in ‘Early Detection’ Molecular imaging could help to advance clinical screenings for esophageal and other cancers. Eso...
Magnetomotive Photoacoustic Imaging Spots Circulating Tumor Cells A new technique could help metastasis diagnosis by magnetically trapping rare circulating tumor cell...	FRET Microscopy Brings Us into a World of Molecular Interactions Förster resonance energy transfer microscopy is not bound by the same restrictions as conventio...

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Spectroscopy market to keep growing Drug discovery and development, pharmacogenomics, metabolomics and expanded application markets bode...	Physicians: Let clinicians drive innovation Health care systems developers should adopt a strategy of “user led” innovation, accordi...
Boston Micromachines wins adaptive optics grant Boston Micromachines Corp. (BMC) has received a $1.2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) gra...	Zeiss microscopy technology gets European patent Drs. Harald Hess and Eric Betzig of Jena, Germany-based Carl Zeiss Microscopy have received a Europe...
3 Questions with Thomas Braun Thomas Braun is having a good year. He’s president and CEO of Verisante Technology Inc. of Van...	Hack replaces Luft as Laser 2000 CEO Founder Armin Luft has stepped down as CEO of Laser 2000 GmbH after leading the Wessling, Germany-ba...
FDA clears Quantel Medical’s ophthalmic laser system The US FDA has granted Quantel Medical of Clermont-Ferrand, France, 510(k) market clearance for the ...	Edmund Optics offering Coherent’s OBIS Lasers Edmund Optics of Barrington, N.J., is offering Coherent Inc.’s OBIS laser systems for OEM and ...
3-D printed parts support stem cell research Digital manufacturing company Potomac Photonics recently delivered precision 3-D printed parts to su...	IPG Photonics acquires Mobius Photonics IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., acquired privately held Mobius Photonics of Mountain View, Cal...
OSA names award recipients for 2013 Biophotonics figures prominently in the work honored by The Optical Society (OSA) this year. &ldq...	DSI ups lithography capacity for imaging, biosensing Thin-film optical coatings manufacturer Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI) of Santa Rosa, Calif., has in...
CVI Laser Optics names distributor in Singapore Albuquerque N.M.-based CVI Laser Optics, an Idex Optics and Photonics (IOP) platform with applicatio...	Cobolt opens first US sales office Diode-pumped solid-state laser provider Cobolt AB of Stockholm has opened its first US sales office ...

BioScan

Bladder cancer treatment gets robotic upgrade Treatment of bladder cancer, the sixth most common cancer in the US, hasn’t changed much in mo...	Rats detect infrared light with sense of “touch” Although they can’t see it, rats can now “touch” infrared light using a detector w...
Camera detects sight-threatening eye conditions in real time A multispectral imaging system that rapidly identifies general health disorders and blinding eye dis...	Eyes wired to spinal cord instead of brain can still see Transplanted eyes located far outside the head in a vertebrate animal model can see even without a d...
Laser-based breast cancer test faces human trials A laser diagnostic test that could lead to an instant diagnosis of breast cancer at the time of a ma...	Microscopy shows malfunctioning receptor in cancer cells A new microscopy method uses photon counting to study malfunctions in specific cancer cell proteins,...
Images reveal cell organization, behavior and more Scientists from various disciplines came together to discuss the latest imaging techniques and innov...	Holography + optogenetics = bionic vision? Maybe someday Computer-generated holography could artificially stimulate cells in the eye and even lead to a new s...

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