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BioPhotonics - October 2011


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Specialty Optical Fibers Make Surgery Less Invasive With the population of the world and the expected average life span both growing, there is a greater demand for efficient tools for diagnostics, surgery and patient care. Minimally invasive surgery is one development toward shorter hospital stays and reduced costs, and specialty optical fibers are helping to pave the way. Traditional surgery exposes tissues and organs through large incisions,...
Faster CARS on the Horizon? When it comes to microscopy, scientists want to get images fast – in just a matter of seconds. But despite all of the advantages of broadband CARS, the technique is still a bit on the slow...
Optogenetics May Stop Multiple Disorders in Their Tracks With continued fine-tuning, optogenetics may lead to better treatments of once-implacable maladies that affect muscle coordination, sleep and vision. Controlling a biological response with a shock of...
Taking Multiphoton Imaging to New Depths New laser platforms developed to support the latest needs of biological imaging are poised to fuel the next wave of innovation in multiphoton microscopy: imaging deeper into tissue. Two-photon...
Improving Plant Cell Analysis Requires Good TIRF Total internal reflection is the curious interaction of light and matter that makes fiber optic telecommunications possible, but its use in biological imaging may be even more interesting still. In...
Editorial
New law will affect small businesses, medical devices The US patent process is about to undergo a major overhaul, thanks to the passage of a new act that significantly alters the approach to assigning patents. As he signed the legislation into law last month, President Obama said that the reform is much needed, and that it will speed things up for innovators and entrepreneurs, allowing them to move from invention to business as quickly as possible....
BioScan
Raman spectroscopy could nail osteoporosis diagnosis People with osteoporosis worries soon might have to look no farther than their feet to assess their risk. A new technique using Raman spectroscopy and toenail clippings could predict patients’...
3-D OCT delves deep for improved cancer screening A new optical coherence tomography system can look below the surface with greater detail than traditional screening methods can, enabling high-speed 3-D imaging of microscopic precancerous changes in...
Imaging hat trick: Sharper, deeper and faster An imaging technique that simultaneously achieves high speed, high resolution and deep penetration using 3-D samples could redefine optical imaging of live biological tissues. Scientists must...
Lasers stimulate stem cells for heart repair A noninvasive procedure uses laser-treated bone marrow stem cells to restore heart function and health after a stroke or heart attack. After a heart attack or stroke, scarring can lead to...
New fluorescent protein lights up internal organs A new fluorescent protein that helps scientists to “see” clearly the internal organs of living animals – without the need for imaging techniques that pose side effects – could...
Lasers probe photosynthetic proteins for renewable fuels Unlocking the workings of sunlight-to-fuel conversion could yield safer sustainable fuels, and a new technique looks at wavelength shifts to bring scientists closer to that goal. Plants and...
Brain imaging reveals mental movies Sometimes life really does imitate art. In the 1980s sci-fi classic Brainstorm, scientists recorded a person’s thoughts and sensations so that others could experience them. While science is...
Gold nanoparticles diagnose flu in minutes Physicians and public health officials may no longer have to choose between flu tests that are accurate yet time-consuming or rapid but error-prone, thanks to a new detection method that can identify...
RapidScan
New patent law favors “first to file” President Barack Obama last month signed the most significant reform of US patent law since 1836 and the first major changes to the system since 1952 – with big implications for biomedical and life sciences technologies. “This much-needed reform will speed up the patent process,” Obama said, “so that innovators and entrepreneurs can turn a new invention into a business as...
CoolLED LED light source provider CoolLED of Andover, UK, has named 106%%Accu-Scope Inc. of Commack, N.Y., as master US distributor of its pE-100 illuminators for fluorescence and light microscopy. The...
American Photonics Co. American Photonics Co. of Sarasota, Fla., has completed its new manufacturing facility. Quadrupling the size of the company, the plant was designed to maximize efficiency and precision of optical...
Biolase Technology Inc. Dental laser supplier Biolase Technology Inc. of Irvine, Calif., has been issued US Patent No. 7,997,279, titled “Methods for Treating Eye Conditions,” by the US Patent and Trademark...
Perkin Elmer Inc. In Massachusetts, Perkin Elmer Inc. of Waltham has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Caliper Life Sciences Inc. of Hopkinton for $10.50 per share, for a total net purchase price of about $600...
Carl Zeiss Carl Zeiss of Jena, Germany, has received a license from the University of California, San Francisco, for the commercialization of multidirectional selective plane illumination microscopy (mSPIM), an...
China Medical Technologies Inc. China Medical Technologies Inc. (CMED) of Beijing, and Leica Biosystems, a division of Leica Microsystems of Wetzlar, Germany, will collaborate to develop and market fluorescence in situ...
Ellsworth Adhesives Ellsworth Adhesives of Germantown, Wis., has announced that its Australian entity, Ellsworth Adhesives Australia Pty Ltd., is an authorized distributor for Dymax of Torrington, Conn., an industrial...
Labsphere Inc. Based in North Sutton, N.H., Labsphere Inc., a Halma company, has signed a cooperation agreement with National Lighting Test Centre in Shanghai. The partnership, facilitated by Labsphere distributor...
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is offering its advanced optical technologies for licensing and partnership opportunities. Wavefront sensing and adaptive optics...
Precision Optics Corp. Precision Optics Corp. Inc. of Gardner, Mass., has sold all of its currently issued and nonexpired patents and pending patent applications to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif.,...
Spectra-Physics Based in Santa Clara, Calif., Spectra-Physics, a division of Newport Corp., has been issued US Patent No. 7,962,046 for its DeepSee multiphoton imaging technology. Used in both the Mai Tai DeepSee...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. of Waltham, Mass., has acquired Intrinsic Bioprobes Inc. of Tempe, Ariz., to enhance its work flow for biomarker research and diagnostics. Intrinsic Bioprobes’...
Visualization Sciences Group Visualization Sciences Group (VSG), with offices in the US and France, and Xradia Inc. of Pleasanton, Calif., have signed an original equipment manufacturer partnership agreement in which Xradia will...
Zygo Corp. Zygo Corp. of Middlefield, Conn., has received orders for metrology systems valued at more than $6 million from two Chinese optical research and manufacturing organizations. The orders were for...
Postscripts
Microscope zeros in on molecular action A new microscopy technique has opened a window to the fast-moving molecular activity in living cells in real time – right down to the millisecond. Using a laser light sheet, researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, scanned samples layer by layer, then reconstructed them in 3-D, providing insights into processes that previously were invisible. The...
Products
Raman Microspectrometer Craic Technologies Inc. has developed the Apollo, a Raman microspectrometer that can be used in a stand-alone configuration or added to one of the company’s UV-visible-NIR microspectrophotometers or optical microscopes to enhance their capabilities for Raman microspectroscopy. When added to a unit such as the 20/20 PV microspectrophotometer, it performs molecular spectroscopy on the micron...
CRAIC Technologies
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Optical Parametric Oscillator The Chameleon Compact OPO-Vis, an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) from Coherent Inc., offers an optional fully integrated second-harmonic-generation accessory that provides automated frequency...
Coherent Inc.
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Standard, Custom Fiber Optics Leoni Fiber Optics Inc. has released a line of standard and custom fiber optics for medical probes for laser energy transmission of argon, Nd:YAG, excimer, KTP and diode lasers. The company offers...
Leoni Fiber Optics GmbH, Wire & Cable Solutions
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SLED for OCT Applications Exalos AG has introduced a fiber-coupled and cooled superluminescent light-emitting diode (SLED) centered at ~1060 nm and matching the water absorption window. With a typical 3-dB optical bandwidth...
Exalos AG
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Near-Infrared Camera Flir Advanced Thermal Solutions has developed a multispectral near-infrared camera for high-end science, and research and development applications. The fully integrated SC7100 covers the spectral...
FLIR Systems
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Multiband Filters Edmund Optics has announced multiband filters that feature multiple passbands on a single filter for real-time live-cell analysis and high-speed imagery. The filters offer high peak transmission with...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Microplate Spectrophotometer BioTek Inc.’s Eon spectrophotometer performs microplate-based absorbance readings. The instrument’s monochromator-based optics allows filter-free 200- to 999-nm-wavelength selection in...
BioTek Instruments Inc.
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Machine Vision System Microscan has announced its Vision MINI smart camera, a fully integrated vision system designed for reliable performance in embedded clinical and laboratory automation applications. Original...
Omron Microscan Systems Inc.
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DLC Coatings Artemis Optical Ltd. has launched its Deimos DLC (diamondlike carbon) line of coatings. Fully compliant with all applicable environmental standards and salt fog-qualified to more than 90 days, they...
G&H Artemis
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Picosecond Pulsed Diode Lasers PicoQuant GmbH has unveiled 500- and 510-nm picosecond pulsed diode laser heads. Green laser emission is not generated by wavelength conversion techniques but directly by a semiconductor laser diode....
PicoQuant GmbH
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Blue Laser Diode Wavelengths Power Technology Inc. has announced new blue laser diode wavelengths and power levels for 2011. The laser diodes can be installed in an assortment of the company’s modules created to address...
Power Technology Inc.
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UV Viewing Cabinet The Spectroline CL-150 series UV workstations offered by Spectronics Corp. enable laboratory technicians to view, analyze and photograph fluorescent samples with both epi-illumination and...
Spectronics Corp., Spectroline
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Lens Adapter Model 287, a wide-angle lens adapter from Resolve Optics Ltd., is designed to double the field of view (FOV) throughout the zoom range of any zoom camera. It provides a true 0.5x FOV while...
Resolve Optics Ltd.
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