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Lensless Cameras May Offer Detailed Imaging of Neural Circuitry
Understanding brain function at the scale of individual neurons could open the door for advanced understanding of animal and human behavior and the mechanisms of neurological disorders such as...
Fluorescence Microscopy Unravels Morphogenesis, Function of Lymph System
The lymphatic system is an underinvestigated part of the vascular system. A team led by Friedemann Kiefer at the European Institute for Molecular Imaging (EIMI) at the University of Münster in...
Double-Helix Point Spread Function Delivers Precise Extended-Depth Microscopy
Light microscopy is a powerful method used in many scientific disciplines, including the life sciences, to visualize finer details in samples. The use of fluorescence enables specific targeting and...
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Point-of-Care Optics Helps Halt the Spread of Infectious Diseases
Early diagnosis is the critical starting point to a better outcome for a patient. It allows effective treatment to start earlier, giving the patient the best possible prognosis. Prompt diagnosis also...
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Deepening Capabilities
In our cover story this month, Katie Heiser and Leslie Kimerling of Double Helix Optics write about a device that integrates depth information with increased resolution. For such work, Double Helix was named a top winner of the first Luminate NY awards. The award comes with a $1 million investment and is sponsored by an accelerator program in Rochester, N.Y., designed to speed innovation and time...
BIOSCAN
Graphene Biointerface Optically Controls Heart Cells
Researchers have developed a technique that allows them to speed up or slow down human heart cells, on command, by shining a light on the cells and varying the light intensity. The optical stimulation platform does not require genetic modification of cells but instead makes use of the optoelectronic properties of graphene, that is, graphene’s ability to efficiently convert light into...
Lidar Helps Yellowstone Manage Threatened Ecosystem
Lidar could offer a fast, efficient way to locate and capture lake trout, an invasive, nonnative fish that is upending the ecosystem in Yellowstone Lake. Aircraft-mounted lidar could allow lake...
QCL-based IR Microscopy Performs Rapid Cancer Diagnosis
A quantum cascade laser-based IR microscope was used for the rapid, label-free classification of colorectal cancer tissues. IR imaging has been shown to be a reliable method for tissue...
NIH Researchers Merge Microscopy Techniques for Faster Images
To create sharper images more quickly, researchers blended instant structured illumination microscopy (iSIM) with total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM). The new technique, called...
Triboluminescence Used to Test for Drug Efficacy
An instrument has been developed that uses triboluminescence (TL) to enable selective detection of trace crystallinity within amorphous solid dispersions, used in the preparation of pharmaceutical...
Optogenetic Tool Controls Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels
An optogenetic tool has been developed for controlling voltage-gated calcium (CaV) channels to enable photo-tunable modulation of CaV channel activity in excitable mammalian cells. The tool, called...
Light-Based Approach Manages Chronic Neuropathic Pain
Researchers have developed a light-based method that could be used to manage neuropathic pain. The technique was tested in mice. Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Rome...
AO-LLSM Microscope Achieves Aberration-Free Imaging
Scientists have combined lattice light-sheet microscopy (LLSM) with adaptive optics (AO) to capture high-resolution 3D movies of cells deep within living systems. The AO-LLSM microscope enables cells...
Microsensor Could Help Individualize Dialysis Treatment
A new microsensor could make it possible to directly monitor and adjust the composition of kidney dialysis fluid (dialysate) — an important step toward customizing dialysis to the individual...
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Luminate NY Names Double Helix Top Winner of Competition's First Round
Double Helix Optics was named the overall winner in the first round of the Luminate NY competition. The Boulder, Colo.-based company will receive $1 million in follow-on funding from New York state through the Finger Lakes Forward Upstate Revitalization Initiative. As the award stipulates, Double Helix will commit to establishing operations in Rochester for at least the next 18 months. Double...
Zebra Medical Announces Algorithm Approval
Health care imaging analytics developer Zebra Medical Vision has announced CE (European Conformity) regulatory approval of its newest algorithm to be included in its deep learning imaging analytics...
Baby Sleep Monitor Developer Nanit Secures $14M in Funding
Nanit, a smart baby monitor developer that uses computer vision technology to help baby sleep development, has secured $14 million in Series B financing led by Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). With...
KARL STORZ Launches Blue Light Bladder Cancer Treatment
Following the approval of a supplemental new drug application and a premarket approval supplement from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America Inc. has launched the...
PicoQuant Opens Chinese App Center
Optoelectronics developer PicoQuant GmbH has opened its Application Center China, a showroom for time-resolved fluorescence test measurement technology based in China’s Optical Valley. The new...
Nuclear Medicine, Molecular Imaging Industry Group Forms
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s (SNMMI’s) Value Initiative Industry Alliance has been established to connect corporate members to the future of nuclear medicine...
UCI’s Biophysicist Receives $2M Grant for Insect Control Research
Todd Holmes, professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of California, Irvine, has been awarded a competitive five-year $2.1 million Outstanding Investigator Award/Maximizing...
Cellmic Patent Aims to Grow Leti Portfolio
Leti, a research institute at CEA Tech, and Cellmic LLC, a company that leverages patient health care with smartphones and biophotonics, have joined forces to accelerate the market adoption of...
UFC Develops Quantum Material That Uses, Stores Energy at Subatomic Level
The San Antonio Endovascular & Heart Institute (SAEHi), a practice specializing in diagnosing, treating, managing, and researching diseases and disorders of the heart and vascular system, has...
Larson Named MSA Fellow
David J. Larson, director of scientific marketing for material analysis technology developer CAMECA Instruments Inc., has been appointed a fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA). The MSA...
UA Engineer Inducted into AIMBE
Matthew Becker, who holds the W. Gerald Austen Endowed Chair of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron (UA), was inducted into the College of Fellows by the American...
Lensar System Receives FDA Clearance
Ocular laser developer Lensar Inc. has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. FDA for its LENSAR laser system with Streamline IV, expanding the platform’s capabilities to include the creation...
Certara Acquires Analytica Laser
Drug development consultant company Certara LP has acquired Analytica Laser, a consultancy for medicine and health technology. ”We are delighted to be joining Certara, a recognized leader in...
BIOPINION
Open-Source Biophotonics is Better For All
Biophotonics has revolutionized many research fields, with direct effects on human well-being. Obviously, imaging requires microscopes and contrast agents. An open-source, sharing-driven model of technology development and dissemination can foster discoveries at a faster rate than under the status quo. For the past decade, the Janelia Research Campus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)...
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Laser ‘Smells’ Diseases via Breath Analysis
A noninvasive laser that can “smell” could make diagnosing diseases easier. University of Adelaide researchers in Australia have created a laser that can differentiate between gases within a sample. The new device could be used for environmental monitoring and detecting industrial contamination, and also to diagnose disease by “smelling” a person’s breath. The device...
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