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BioPhotonics: January 2011

BioPhotonics
 January 2011


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Superresolution: Reality or a “STORM” in a Teacup? Imagine “zooming into the cell”1 and seeing not only the most delicate structures but critical processes in action. Well, superresolution (SR) imaging allows biologists and chemists to do just that. In 2008, Nature voted this new field of optical microscopy its Method of the Year. A mere two years later, the show floor at the Society for Neuroscience conference in November boasted...
Ultrafast Lasers for Microscopy: Flexibility Plus State-of-the-Art Performance Nonlinear microscopic imaging techniques are playing key roles across many areas of life sciences research because they can perform high-resolution, three-dimensional spatial imaging of specific...
Polymer Optics for Thermally Stable Imaging There is currently a soaring demand for high-performance optics and optical systems applications in the fields of optometry, biomedicine, microscopy, and a number of related scientific and industrial...
Q & A: Trends in Life Sciences Spectroscopy Optical spectroscopy can be used to monitor nearly everything with which we come into contact – food, water, air, chemicals – as well as the state of our health and the health of our...
Cooperation + Openness = Innovation Producing a winning idea is not an instantaneous event but an ongoing process. Even if you are struck with an inspiration for a novel technology, for a better way to accomplish an everyday task, or...
EDITORIAL
New Rule: Pushing Allowed If you know the tricorder only as an app for your Android phone, here’s a brief description, based on my own observations: The Star Trek tricorder was a multipurpose handheld device used for scanning alien landscapes for signs of life and analyzing scanned data, among other things. Medical tricorders were used by sick bay personnel to noninvasively scan patients to determine what ailed...
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Light and polymer germicide show promise Polymer surfaces working in tandem with fluorescent lighting could reduce the spread of dangerous bacteria in hospitals and other clinical settings. Hospital staff could simply turn on regular fluorescent lighting to activate the antimicrobial properties of such surfaces, reducing the need for more labor-intensive methods of disinfection. And scientists have now taken a step forward in developing...
Microscopic solar cells could change cancer therapy When it comes to solar cells, “the larger, the better” may be one of the first thoughts because more surface area helps the cells convert more sunlight into electrical energy. The...
Cancer institute invests $2.3 million in plasmonic photothermal therapy study A five-year grant totaling more than $2.3 million will enable researchers at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology to explore the effectiveness of plasmonic photothermal therapy...
New VECSEL for spectroscopy Vertical external cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) have attractive features but have been hard to make for wavelengths above 2.5 μm – at least until now. Scientists at ETH...
Making Raman work harder and faster A refinement of coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy engineered by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has resulted in a speedy and powerful new technique for...
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Molecular diagnostic testing: A healthy prognosis Molecular diagnostics is the fastest growing segment of the in vitro diagnostics market, according to a study by DeciBio, a Los Angeles-based market analysis firm. Stéphane Budel, a partner in...
Lumenis Ltd. Medical laser company Lumenis Ltd. of Yokneam, Israel, and Alma Lasers Ltd. of Buffalo Grove, Ill., a provider of aesthetic devices based on light, lasers, radio frequency and ultrasound, announced...
Crystal IS Inc. In Green Island, N.Y., ultraviolet LED developer Crystal IS Inc. announced that it has been awarded $5 million by DARPA. The grant is based on the performance of the company’s existing 265-nm...
Jenoptik High-technology optics and digital imaging products provider Jenoptik of Jena, Germany, through its digital imaging division, has partnered with MikroScan Technologies of Vista, Calif., to design and...
Integromics Integromics of Granada, Spain, a provider of information technology solutions for life sciences in the field of genomics and proteomics, announced that the Princeton Mass Spectrometry Center at...
Glencoe Software Inc. Glencoe Software Inc. of Seattle, a biological research image and metadata management tools company, announced that PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass., has chosen Glencoe’s open source-based...
NanoSight Ltd. Members of the department of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore are using the LM10-HS, a nanoparticle tracking analysis system made by NanoSight Ltd....
Nikon Instruments Inc. Nikon Instruments Inc. of Melville, N.Y., has begun direct sales and technical support for its BioScience microscopes, confocal systems and digital imaging products in New Jersey and Puerto Rico. The...
Computer Modules Inc. San Diego-based Computer Modules Inc. announced it has changed the name of its imaging division from QZEO to ImageOps to better reflect its focus on imaging. The newly renamed unit distributes...
Hudson Robotics Inc. In Springfield, N.J., laboratory automation solutions provider Hudson Robotics Inc. announced that it has been selected as a preferred automation vendor for Menlo Park, Calif.-based ForteBio...
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Laser Modules Coherent Inc. has added three new wavelengths to its Cube family of solid-state continuous-wave visible diode laser modules: 488 nm (50 mW), 685 nm (40 mW) and 730 nm (30 mW). The compact laser heads...
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Microscopy Software Olympus Europa Holding GmbH has launched labSens, an intuitive and adaptable software package for clinical and research imaging microscopy work flow and digital documentation. The user interface...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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Image Scanners Dalsa Corp. has announced its Argus platform of CCD/time-delay-integration-based x-ray image scanners developed for use in the medical and dental fields. Argus modules include high-resolution...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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Optical Filters Deposition Sciences Inc. has introduced IR narrow-bandpass filters for industrial, medical and biological sciences instrumentation. They offer high spectral performance with accurate...
Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI)
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High-Content Screening Leica Microsystems has extended its automated high-content screening (HCS) solution to cover applications on confocal and wide-field fluorescence microscopy systems for primary and secondary...
Leica Microsystems GmbH
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Microscope Camera System Optronics has added the Microcast HD Pro-Lite and Print Pro camera models to its line of full 1080-pixel high-definition (HD) digital microscope camera systems. The cameras are designed to provide...
Optronics
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Red Laser PD-LD Inc. has announced a high-power, volume Bragg grating-stabilized multimode 647-nm red laser series. The laser sources enable an increased range of spectroscopic analytical capabilities. Their...
Necsel IP Inc.
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Flow Cytometry Beckman Coulter Inc. has introduced Krome Orange, a violet-excited organic dye that expands the range of choices and dye sensitivity limits for violet lasers. Common gating markers can be transferred...
Beckman Coulter Inc., Diagnostics Div.
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UV Transilluminators Measuring 29.2 x 35.6 x 5.7 cm, Spectronics Corp.’s Slimline series UV transilluminators save space in crowded research laboratories. The devices deliver a typical peak 312-nm intensity of 9000...
Spectronics Corp., Spectroline
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Diode Laser The Pulse is a high-speed diode laser manufactured by Technobis Mechatronics that combines good beam quality (a result of spatial filtering) and high-speed analog modulation with full analog...
PhotonFirst
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Fluorescence Imaging Microscope UVP LLC’s iBox Explorer fluorescence imaging microscope is for rapid high-resolution analysis of fluorescently tagged cells, tissues, organs and whole animals in the visible and near-IR...
Analytik Jena US LLC
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Optomechanical Software TracePro 7.0, the new optomechanical design software unveiled by Lambda Research Corp., uses multithreading algorithms to increase ray tracing speeds by up to 10 times compared with the earlier 6.0...
Lambda Research Corporation
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Digital Nanopositioning PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. has introduced the E-709, a piezo nanopositioning controller that provides digital functionality in the size of a paperback for the price of analog. Fifth-order...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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UV/VIS Spectrophotometer Analytik Jena UK’s Specord Plus, a UV/VIS spectrophotometer, offers enhanced photometric and kinetic measurements. It features a large sample compartment and delivers 1000 data points per...
Analytik Jena UK
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Thin-Film Transistor LCDs Lumex has launched its InfoVue TFT (thin-film transistor) LCDs, a line of full-color graphic display technology available in touch-screen or standard format. The LCDs feature an extended temperature...
Lumex
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Optical Mirrors Submillimeter optical mirrors as small as 0.2 mm in diameter are now available from Bern Optics Inc. They can be custom-engineered, ground and polished in a variety of standard or custom shapes to...
Bern Optics Inc.
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Superresolution Microscope Nikon Instruments Inc.’s N-SIM superresolution microscope is based on structured illumination (SIM) technology developed and licensed to Nikon by the University of California, San Francisco....
Nikon Instruments Inc.
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High-Sensitivity Spectrometer Avantes BV has unveiled the AvaSpec Sens-Line high-sensitivity spectrometers that are designed for applications such as fluorescence spectroscopy and low-light-level detection. Features include high...
Avantes BV
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Microscope Spectrophotometer Craic Technologies Inc. has announced the 308 PV microscope colorimeter. Designed to be added to an open photoport of a microscope or probe station, it provides spectroscopy, color imaging, thin-film...
CRAIC Technologies
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Ti:sapphire Oscillator The FemtoSource Fusion family manufactured by Femtolasers Produktions GmbH is a range of Ti:sapphire oscillators generating pulse durations from <9 to <20 fs. Average powers range from 150 mW...
Spectra-Physics Vienna
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CCD Image Sensors Hamamatsu Photonics UK Ltd. has introduced the S11510 series full-frame transfer CCD image sensors with ultrahigh sensitivity in the near-IR region. Using proprietary laser processing technology, it...
Hamamatsu Photonics UK Ltd.
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Light Microscopy An automated microscope for live-cell imaging has been released by Till Photonics. The state-of-the-art More is a multipurpose light microscopy platform with a real-time protocol engine that allows...
FEI Munich GmbH
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