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BioPhotonics: April 2006

BioPhotonics
 April 2006


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A Spotlight on Biophotonics in Canada Canada has demonstrated its commitment to building a sustainable future for biophotonics through education, research and industrial development. Numerous initiatives exist, at federal and provincial levels, whose mandate is to establish a firm foothold for biophotonics within the global arena. For example, the Advanced Biophotonics Consortium (ABC), established in April 2003, comprises life...
Virtual Microscopy Slides into Place Palos Pathology Associates Ltd. provides pathology services to a 300-bed community hospital in suburban Chicago, and Dr. Stephen G. Ruby, president of the company, is thinking of expanding the...
Protein Interactions Profiled Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Proteins are the worker bees of the human body. They traverse cell membranes to receive and propagate signals, transport oxygen to every cell in the body, regulate the expression of genes and impart...
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Fluorescent bacteria reveal steps in vitamin B-12 synthesis Vitamin B-12 (cobalamin) helps in the synthesis of DNA and red blood cells and is important in the maintenance of the insulation layer that surrounds nerve cells. Scientists know how virtually every...
Fluorescent probes can handle rigors of spaceflight Two common fluorescent probes may be one step closer to a flight to Mars now that researchers have determined that the probes can withstand high doses of radiation with little degradation of their...
We got the (tiny) beat Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, both in Urbana, have the beat — at least on the nanometer scale. They have constructed a...
Biosensing with microlenses To see something small, you need a magnifier — and that is what a group of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta turned to in developing a label-free biosensor. For...
Second-harmonic imaging with minimal damage When researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and the University of Florence in Italy set out to optimize second-harmonic-generation microscopy, they did so to improve measurements of...
New method offers alternative to optical trapping Researchers use optical trapping to answer a variety of biological questions. However, the technique requires optical systems with high numerical apertures and short working distances and is...
Mobile in vivo camera robots provide visual feedback in surgery Minimally invasive surgery offers patients less trauma, shorter recovery times and less scarring. However, the small incisions used in these techniques, such as laparoscopy, restrict surgeons’...
Applied Biosystems Group Applied Biosystems Group of Foster City, Calif., has completed the acquisition of the Research Products Div. of Ambion Inc. of Austin, Texas. The latter develops and supplies products for...
Bruker Daltonik GmbH Bruker Daltonik GmbH of Bremen, Germany, and DSMZ GmbH, the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, in Braunschweig, have announced that they have formed a partnership for the...
Optoelectronics Industry Development Association The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association of Washington has published The Challenge for Biophotonic Sensors, a report based on industry, academic and government agency presentations from a...
Acuo Technologies LLC Acuo Technologies LLC of St. Paul, Minn., has extended a collaboration under which it will include Visage Pacs, an image-management package from Mercury Computer Systems Inc. of Chelmsford, Mass., in...
The National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., is conducting a $60 million, five-year study to identify biological markers of Alzheimer’s disease. The project, part of the Alzheimer...
Society of Nuclear Medicine The Society of Nuclear Medicine of Reston, Va., has announced $58,000 in scholarships and grants for molecular and nuclear medicine technology students. The awards include a professional development...
Tohoku University Tohoku University of Sendai and National Institute of Radiological Sciences of Chiba, both in Japan, have agreed to coordinate their molecular imaging research. They will promote the exchange of...
Varian Inc. Varian Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., has acquired Fourier transform mass spectrometry technology through its purchase of IonSpec Corp. of Lake Forest, Calif. The technique is used in laboratories to...
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH The Microscopy Group of Carl Zeiss has been incorporated into Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH. The company will expand its global activities in the fields of microscopy solutions, systems for research,...
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Grains of ‘nanorice’ may improve spectroscopic techniques Composite metallic particles shaped like rice grains combine the plasmonic properties of nanorods and nanoshells, suggesting potential applications in surface plasmon resonance and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopies for biomedical diagnostics and pharmacology. Developed at the Laboratory for Nanophotonics at Rice University in Houston, the “nanorice” is described in the March 11...
Nikon Small World renews call for entries Nikon Instruments Inc. of Melville, N.Y., has renewed its call for entries for the 32nd annual Nikon Small World Competition, founded to recognize those involved with photomicrography. ...
Liquid crystals report cell differentiation Liquid crystals — the substance used in electronic displays — also can be used to monitor stem cell differentiation. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a...
Mosquitoes’ hearing properties profiled Researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK have discovered that mosquitoes can respond to sound by appropriately amplifying or reducing incoming noise for optimal hearing, and they are keen...
Australian mammal demonstrates color vision Trichromatic color vision has been thought to be unique to primates among mammals, but researchers have recently discovered that the fat-tailed dunnart, a marsupial in Australia, has functional...
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