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BioPhotonics: July 2013

BioPhotonics
 July 2013


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Terahertz Spectroscopy Promises Better Diagnosis, Safer Drugs With terahertz imaging systems getting smaller and cheaper – and performing better – applications are stacking up in cancer imaging as well as drug detection and development. ...
Hyperspectral Imaging Could Help Fight Chronic Wounds The technique could advance diagnosis and management of this growing public health issue. Chronic wounds might not seem a major public health concern – they don’t often make the evening...
Fiber Optics’ Versatility Helps Market Grow Companies report continued growth in the biomedical market. A s diagnostic and treatment technologies evolve and increasingly turn to light, medical device manufacturers increasingly turn to fiber...
Biophotonic Technologies Enter Varied Markets A new report details opportunities for photonics in the life sciences and medicine. Biophotonic technologies have received more and more attention in recent years, highly touted as...
EDITORIAL
Recognizing, Remembering Giants of Discovery We congratulate Robert Alfano, distinguished professor of science and engineering at The City College of New York, who in June was named the recipient of the 2013 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science from the American Physical Society. The award was made for his pioneering contributions to the field of ultrafast laser science, including the discovery of supercontinuum generation and laser...
BIOSCAN
Wireless microLEDs shed light on brain Integrating neuroscience with materials engineering could establish a paradigm for delivering sophisticated electronics into the body. Materials scientists and engineers at the University of...
Neighboring cells detect ovarian cancer early Ovarian cancer – the fifth leading cause of death in women in the US – often goes undetected until it has spread elsewhere. But a new minimally invasive method that investigates cells...
Brain’s circuits shown with new CLARITY Replacing the fatty tissue of a postmortem mouse’s brain with a hydrogel has rendered the gray matter transparent, enabling scientists to trace individual neuron connections with unprecedented...
With laser zap, cocaine addiction vaporizes Laser light stimulation to a portion of the brain can wipe away addictive behaviors – or conversely turn on a drug addiction, a new US study on rats has demonstrated. An estimated 1.4...
Cancer cell killers revealed by laser microscopy A laser-based microscope video imaging technique has revealed why a particular cancer drug is so effective at killing cells. The findings could revolutionize the design of future cancer treatments....
Light controls cell behavior Light-sensitive proteins in cells can be coaxed to move toward a beam of light, a first step toward manipulating cells to control insulin secretion or heart rate using light, a new study out of...
RAPIDSCAN
3 Questions with Dr. Aydogan Ozcan of Holomic LLC and UCLA Dr. Aydogan Ozcan has been busy. At 34, he has 22 patents and more than 15 pending patent applications for his inventions in nanoscopy, wide-field imaging, lensless imaging, nonlinear optics, fiber...
US photonics societies launch national initiative The National Photonics Initiative (NPI) – an alliance seeking to unite experts from industry, academia and the government to advance photonics R&D, grow the US economy and improve national...
OCT dominating imaging market The optical imaging market will reach $1.9 billion by the end of 2018 – a compound annual growth rate of 11.37 percent – with OCT making up a whopping 70 percent or more of that market,...
Coherent up in Q2, but says science applications are down Coherent Inc. recently reported a profit of $15 million (61 cents a share) for the second fiscal quarter of 2013. The company’s overall earnings were up slightly over the first quarter’s...
Prism winner nabs Edison Award Skin cancer detector maker Verisante Technology Inc. received a bronze Edison Award in the Diagnostic/Analytic category for its noninvasive Aura device. The award was presented this spring in...
Student, 16, proposes killing cancer with gold ‘nanobullets’ An experimental therapy that deploys gold nanoparticles in the fight against cancer earned a 16-year-old Alberta, Canada, high school student top national honors in the 2013 Sanofi BioGENEius...
Andor’s Insight Awards reveal the artistic side of science Three visually stunning and scientifically captivating entries have won their categories in the Andor Insight Awards Scientific Imaging Competition, held by Andor Technology plc. Fernando Amat...
Deisseroth, Miesenböck, Boyden win award for optogenetics advances Professors Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Gero Miesenböck of the University of Oxford and Edward S. Boyden of MIT have been awarded Brandeis University’s 16th annual Jacob Heskel...
Biolase laser receives FDA OK for first nondental surgery Dental laser maker Biolase Inc.’s WaterLase iPlus all-tissue laser has been cleared by the FDA for soft-tissue use in orthopedic and podiatric surgery. This is the first nondental clearance for...
Professor wins NSF Career Award to investigate how cells grow Luis Vidali, assistant professor of biology and biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), has won a five-year, $977,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to...
POST SCRIPTS
Cool LEDs for hothouse tomatoes In the cold dark of winter, fresh ripe tomatoes bring a burst of summer to your lips – but fruits imported from more temperate climes are less tasty, and locally grown vine-ripened tomatoes are expensive. But that expense could drop, thanks to LEDs. “LEDs are a hot topic in agriculture – especially for plant growth in controlled environments such as greenhouses, where...
PRODUCTS
USB 3.0 Cameras The Imaging Source, an international manufacturer of industrial cameras for machine vision, has just announced a new series of compact USB 3.0 cameras with CCD and CMOS sensors. The cameras ship in robust, industrial casing (29 x 29 x 47 mm) with a C/CS lens mount, trigger and digital I/0 inputs. The color, monochrome and Bayer models are available with resolutions from VGA to 5MP. They are...
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Tunable Laser NKT Photonics has unveiled the SuperK Extend-UV wavelength extension unit, a tunable deep-UV supercontinuum-powered light source. It is suitable for applications including measuring fluorescence...
NKT Photonics A/S
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Broadband-Coated Mirrors The TechSpec broadband-coated λ/10 first-surface mirrors from Edmund Optics provide >99% reflection for application in the visible to near-infrared spectra, including flow cytometry,...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Linear Variable Filters Optical thin-film maker Delta’s new line of linear variable order sorting filters features wide transmission and reflectance bands, increasing the performance of grating-based spectrometers. ...
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Microscopy Imaging Scientific camera manufacturer SPOT Imaging Solutions has launched the high-speed Insight Gigabit camera for live microscopy imaging. It is suitable for presentations at conferences and in the...
SPOT Imaging
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Board-Level Camera Baumer Ltd. has released the MXG03, a board-level camera equipped with Cmosis NV’s CMV300 VGA sensor. The camera delivers 250 fps for applications including packaging, industrial automation,...
Baumer Ltd.
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DC Motor and Gearhead The EC4 from maxon motor is a 4-mm-diameter brushless DC motor and gearhead for miniature pumps, surgical robots, diagnostic devices, endoscopes and other miniaturization applications. To...
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UV-VIS-NIR Spectrometer The Silver-Nova spectrometer from StellarNet Inc. has a ruggedized metal enclosure with a fiber optic input for spectroscopy applications in the 190- to 1110-nm wavelength range. The...
StellarNet Inc.
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Microscopy Spectrometer Prior Scientific has introduced the LumaSpec 800, a compact microscope illumination spectrometer that provides quantitative spectral data for any microscopy light source. Using an illumination...
Prior Scientific Inc.
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