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BioPhotonics: November 2013

BioPhotonics
 November 2013


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Live-Cell Imaging Evolves to Find New Niches From watching embryos as they develop to viewing neurons being manipulated in the brain, live-cell imaging continues to find new applications. Since its introduction in the 1600s, improvements in...
Moving Past the Articulated Arm Advances in fiber lasers will benefit laser surgery applications Surgery requires a deft hand and a fluid touch. And yet, for some time, the most common method of delivery of surgical lasers was the...
Q&A: Adaptive Optics ‘On the Rise’ Three imaging companies discuss the factors driving the market for adaptive optics for biological applications, and offer a look at where the field is going. Adaptive optics started off looking out...
The Recent History of Endoscope Design: Way More Than Candlelight and Specula The history of endoscopy is the history of advances in technology leading doctors deeper into the gastrointestinal tract and providing clearer views of what they find there. And the past several...
EDITORIAL
Journeys of Discovery Little more than 100 years ago, French biologist Jean Comandon and colleagues were making live films of cell division using time-lapse microcinematography, capturing the wonder of the process before the dyes and preservatives killed the cells. Fin, indeed. But live-cell microcinematography was the celluloid precursor to modern-day live-cell imaging. And while the microscope has several hundred...
BIOSCAN
Sculpted light captures brain activity A high-speed imaging technique that “sculpts” the 3-D distribution of light in a sample can resolve a single neuron in a living worm, opening possibilities for studying the function of...
Laser-based tool tells normal tissue from tumors A new laser tool can microscopically distinguish between normal and cancerous brain tissue in real time. It doesn’t miss cells that could trigger new tumor growth, so it could make brain cancer...
Light to the heart to restore healthy beats When a person’s heart slows or stops, the current practice is to jump-start it with a blast of electricity from a pacemaker or defibrillator. But a multiuniversity team aims to put an...
Superbright nanocrystals advance biosensing Superbright, photostable and background-free nanocrystals called SuperDots – three orders of magnitude brighter than quantum dots – enable a new approach to highly advanced biosensing...
Spaghettilike surface makes stronger SERS sensor Spaghettilike arrays of gold-coated metallic carbon nanotubes can amplify the signals of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) enough to allow the performance of analyses that are more reliable,...
‘Plasmofluidic’ lens is tunable, reconfigurable Laser-induced bubbles on a metal film are the first demonstration of a plasmonic lens in a microfluidic environment. Integrating plasmonics and microfluidics could help in developing highly sensitive...
RAPIDSCAN
Femtosecond lasers seeing huge growth for cataract surgery The global market for femtosecond lasers for cataract surgery is growing exponentially and will reach $2.4 billion by 2019, according to Femtosecond Lasers for Cataract Surgery: Market Shares,...
Congressman tours UCF laser facility Photonics was the focal point at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando when Rep. John L. Mica paid a visit to the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL). ...
Zecotek Photonics raises $3.5M Zecotek Photonics Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has sold more than 5.9 million shares of company stock at a price of 58 cents a share to raise approximately $3.5 million. The sale...
Avo helps design, produce Optofluidics’ NanoTweezer Avo Photonics of Horsham, Pa., a Halma company, has provided system design and manufacturing services for Philadelphia-based Optofluidics Inc.’s molecular NanoTweezer system. The...
Urologists need better information on laser fiber diameter The advertised total and core diameters of laser fibers for urological surgery do not correspond with the actual diameters, according to a new study. Furthermore, there are serious differences...
Bruker acquires Prairie Technologies Scientific instruments provider Bruker Corp. of Billerica, Mass., has acquired Prairie Technologies Inc., a provider of fluorescence microscopy products. Specific terms were not disclosed. ...
Verisante completes imager prototype Verisante Technology Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has completed the second phase of a rapid multispectral imaging (MSI) system for skin cancer detection. The prototype is...
Agilent opens spectroscopy center in Australia Agilent Technologies Inc. has opened a $25 million center in Mulgrave, Australia, for cutting-edge spectroscopy research, laboratory testing and training. The facility provides advanced...
LSO Medical partners with GME on dermatology lasers LSO Medical SAS of Loos, France, a manufacturer of lasers for aesthetic and surgical applications, has joined forces with GME German Medical Engineering GmbH of Erlangen, Germany, to market...
People In The News Fibercore of Southampton, England, has appointed John Lee senior vice president of global sales. Prior to joining Fibercore, Lee headed sales and marketing at Timbercon, where he oversaw 25 percent...
Holomic, ThyroMetrix team up for ‘smartphone lab’ Holomic LLC, the mobile health company founded by UCLA professor Dr. Aydogan Ozcan, has partnered with clinical thyroid testing company ThyroMetrix USA Inc. of Williamsburg, Va., to boost products...
Agilent acquires ABC Instrumentación Analítica Agilent Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has acquired ABC Instrumentación Analítica (ABCIA) of Mexico City. Financial terms were not disclosed; the acquisition was expected to...
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Butterfly wings + nanotubes = new optical material Butterflies have always been beautiful, but it turns out they’re useful, too: Combining butterfly wings with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could lead to new biotech tools such as soft, wearable devices, high-sensitivity photosensors and sustainable light batteries. A honeycomb-shaped network containing CNTs can be readily formed on a Morpho sulkowskyi butterfly wing using a simple self-assembly...
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ML7710-PDT Laser System The ML7710-PDT laser system from Modulight Inc. is equipped with all required functionalities for safety and usability in photodynamic therapy applications. Features include a touch-screen user interface; seven individually addressable fiber output channels; aiming beam; internal calibration module; foot/hand switch; fiber sensors; and safety interlocks. Optional services include customized...
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CrossBeam 340, 540 Microscopes Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH has introduced models 340 and 540 to its CrossBeam microscope series for use in 3-D nanotomography and nanofabrication applications in the materials and life sciences. ...
Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH
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Purair BIO Safety Cabinet Air Science USA designed its biological safety cabinet, the Purair BIO, to serve as a barrier in life sciences research and experimentation, protecting individuals, the environment and products from...
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FluoScout Microscopy Software Leica Microsystems has launched FluoScout, an online tool that allows users of fluorescence microscopes to determine the optimal filter cube or filter set for the imaging application. The...
Leica Microsystems GmbH
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3-D Micropositioner A new complex 3-D micropositioning unit from piezosystem jena can be integrated into medical devices for use in multiphoton imaging. The device achieves a positioning accuracy of ±0.25...
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1470-nm and 1530-nm Fiber-Coupled Lasers Dilas’ new conduction-cooled fiber-coupled 1470- and 1530-nm diode laser modules offer 12-W output power and are suited for surgical applications that demand high power with small fiber...
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Libra-HE+ Ultrafast Laser Amplifier Coherent Inc. has expanded its ultrafast laser amplifier family with the addition of the Libra-HE+, a one-box, single-stage device. In combination with optical parametric amplifiers such as the...
Coherent Inc.
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RTLA-30-100-SMART Rotary Stage The RTLA-30-100-SMART rotary stage by Intellidrives Inc., a member of the compact positioning stages family of linear, rotary, X-Y and vertical lift stages, is suitable for various applications...
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SPiiPlusCMhp/ba Control Module ACS Motion Control’s SPiiPlusCMhp/ba control module and EtherCAT master provides 2- or 3-axes motion stage and flexible configurations with additional axes and I/O’s. The device is suited...
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TechSpec Cage System Components Kit The TechSpec Cage System Components kit from Edmund Optics contains plates, rods, mounts and accessories such as screws and tools that are necessary to construct basic optomechanical systems. ...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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5R6-900 Lab Temperature Controller Oven Industries Inc. now offers model 5R6-900, a laboratory temperature controller with ramp/soak capabilities. The benchtop device is suitable for science laboratories, polymerase chain reaction...
Oven Industries Inc.
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Optically Centred Crop Mode Technology Andor Technology plc has launched its Optically Centred Crop Mode technology for its iXon Ultra EMCCD platform, offering fast region-of-interest (ROI) frame-rate performance for live-cell...
Andor Technology
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P532 Series Disc Magnet Step Motor Portescap has introduced the P532 series disc magnet step motor with encoder for applications where closed-loop performance is needed. The device’s multipolar design requires no...
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MovingLab Dual-Band Transportable Microscope BaySpec Inc. has introduced the MovingLab dual-band transportable microscope for forensics and other laboratory and field measurement applications. It offers any two-wavelength combination of 532,...
BaySpec Inc.
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Raman Analyzer Software Rigaku Raman Technologies has released software enhancements for its Xantus-2 dual-wavelength portable Raman analyzer. The Xantus-2 version 3.0.0.0 software includes a redesigned account...
Rigaku Analytical Devices Inc.
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