Breathalyzer for Cancer
Studies have shown that dogs can detect cancer by smelling certain gasses on the breath of patients, but unfortunately dogs can’t tell us exactly what gasses they smell.
Intrigued by the concept of ...
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Newport Unit to Cut 80 Jobs
Newport Corp.'s Spectra-Physics facility in Tucson has laid off 29 of its 200 workers and will let about 50 more go through the first quarter of 2009, according to media reports. The Arizona Daily Sta...
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Cutting Cancer by Color
The key to a successful cancer surgery is the removal of all of the diseased tissue, but sometimes tumor boundaries can be difficult to track. However, researchers in Massachusetts have developed a ne...
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Bruker AXS Buying AFM Maker
Analytical x-ray systems manufacturer Bruker AXS GmbH of Karlsruhe, Germany, announced it will acquire the German company SIS (Surface Imaging Systems) GmbH, a maker of advanced atomic force/scanning ...
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Eyeing the Biological Clock
Our biological clock tells us when to eat, sleep, and when to wake up. Though we have evolved to coordinate our activities with the day/night cycle caused by the earth’s rotation, there is now evidenc...
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Ultrafast Amplifier Systems
Coherent
Coherent Inc. has introduced two new Legend Elite ultrafast amplifiers that offer specified pulse widths of less than 25 femtoseconds.
The Legend Elite USX-HE delivers pulse energies over 2.5 mJ, an...
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Heated Petri Dish
JPK Instruments
JPK Instruments AG has released a Petri dish heater solution for live cell imaging using the company’s NanoWizard BioAFM and CellHesion product lines.
The heater system can apply standard imaging an...
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Biomedical Laser Diode
Opnext
Photonic Products, an optoelectronics device manufacturer and laser diode specialist, will distribute the 705 nm semiconductor laser diode from Opnext Inc.
The Opnext HL7001MG/HL7002MG laser diodes ...
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Precision Optical Positioning
Equipment Solutions
Developed for precision optical positioning applications, Equipment Solutions’ LFA-1012 linear focus actuator features a patented zero-translation tangential flexure for high-speed travel.
The clea...
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Optical Bandpass Filter
Oseir
Oseir has unveiled a new tunable multistage optical bandpass filter for use in practical spectral two-dimensional imaging applications.
The filter has a tuning wavelength range from 450 to 800 nm an...
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Jmar to Develop Lasers for Johns Hopkins APL
San Diego-based Jmar Technologies Inc. has been awarded a contract to develop two prototype special purpose lasers for The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), the company announ...
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Lawrence Tan Hired as JPK’s Singapore Manager
JPK Instruments of Berlin has hired Lawrence Tan as the new Singapore manager for all its Asian sales and marketing activities. Tan, formerly Asian sales manager for Veeco Instruments, will be respon...
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Prism Awards Entry Deadline is Sept. 12
The submissions deadline for the first annual Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation is Sept. 12. The competition, sponsored by SPIE and Laurin Publishing, is based on the theme that Invention + Commer...
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Reliant, Philips Partner for Home Laser Skin Care
Reliant Technologies Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., developer of Fraxel laser systems, has announced an agreement with Philips, a health and well-being company, to develop skin care technologies for ...
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Veeco, Asylum Research Settle AFM Patent Dispute
Metrology and process equipment provider Veeco Instruments Inc. of Plainview, N.Y., announced today that it has settled the patent lawsuit it brought against Asylum Research Corp. in 2003 involving it...
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