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Optofluidics Platform Keys Label-, Amplification-Free Rapid Diagnostic Tool
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 25, 2024 — Bridging speed and accuracy, a diagnostic tool developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and Brigham Young University (BYU) tests for COVID-19 and Zika virus in a matter of hours with the same or better accuracy as high-precision PCR tests. The researcher's lab-on-a-chip diagnostics system combines optofluidics and nanopore technology, and also incorporates silicon chips. Stemming from their success with animal models, the collaborating researchers makes...
What the Fiscal Responsibility Act Portends for Photonics Research
Jul 13, 2023 — Though the so-called debt limit deal that President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy struck this spring spared the U.S. from a default on its national debt, the subsequent Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) injected substantial uncertainty into...
Wearable Brain-Imaging Offers Alternative to 'Gold Standard' Method
ST. LOUIS, June 1, 2023 — Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are developing an alternative to the current gold standard of brain imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The researchers’ technology would allow subjects to move freely while...
NIH Grant Supports Portable OCT Detection of Jaundice in Newborns
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 8, 2022 — A smartphone-based system that relies on OCT to detect jaundice in newborns will be put to use diagnosing very young patients in the U.S. and Nigeria, thanks to a nearly $500,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH awarded...
NIH Grant Supports Light, Ultrasound Combination in Breast Imaging
BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 30, 2020 — National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to SUNY Buffalo is supporting the college’s development of a portable breast imaging device called a dual scan mammoscope (DSM). By pairing light with ultrasound technology, the imaging system...
PhotoniCare Announces Over $7M in Funding
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Sept. 7, 2020 — PhotoniCare Inc. has announced it is receiving more than $7 million in funding to commercially expand its ear imaging technology, TOMi Scope. The company, which provides diagnostic tools for the health care industry, has been awarded more than $5...
Low-Cost Microscope from Stanford Takes Top Prize at DEBUT
BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 27, 2020 — A team from Stanford University has won the top prize at the National Institutes of Health’s ninth annual Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) competition. The team's device, the onchoscope, is a low-cost microscope designed to...
RADx COVID-19 Testing Proposals Advance into Phase II
BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 6, 2020 — The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) program has inked seven contracts, totaling nearly $250 million in combined funding, in its effort to expand COVID-19 testing capabilities. The RADx program was...
NIH Names Carnegie Mellon’s Zhao Top New Innovator
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 20, 2018 — Yongxin (Leon) Zhao, assistant professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. The award is part of the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk,...
Morgridge Institute to Collaborate with UCSD, Sloan Kettering on NIH 'High-Risk, High-Reward' Project
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 25, 2018 — A project to develop a complete cellular blueprint of zebrafish development, headed by Jan Huisken, medical engineering director at the Morgridge Institute for Research, is one of the 2018 winners of the “High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program”...
Open Access to Medical Imaging Dataset Could Advance Computer-Aided Detection
BETHESDA, Md., July 23, 2018 — Researchers announce the open availability of the largest CT lesion-image database accessible to the public. DeepLesion, created by a team from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, could help foster the development of...
NIH Researchers Merge Microscopy Techniques for Faster Images
BETHESDA, Md., May 17, 2018 — To create sharper images more quickly, researchers blended instant structured illumination microscopy (iSIM) with total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM). The new technique, called instant TIRF-SIM, allows researchers to observe...
Kinetic River Completes NIH SBIR Project on Cell Analysis
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 11, 2018 — Custom flow cytometry instrumentation developer Kinetic River Corp. has completed a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The competitive Phase I grant was awarded to Kinetic River in...
NIH Supports Research on Neuromodulation
ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 5, 2017 — Researchers from Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University and the University of Pittsburgh have received a four-year, $9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop enhanced IR...
URMC, RIT Receive Grant for Video Monitoring Afib Detection
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2017 — With a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) will enroll up to 300 people at risk for atrial fibrillation (afib)...
NIH Awards $15M in Human Disease Modeling Grants
BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 2, 2017 — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced 13 two-year awards totaling about $15 million per year to develop 3-D microphysiological system platforms that model human disease. These platforms, called "tissue chips," support living cells...
Kinetic River Receives NIH Grant
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 30, 2017 — Flow cytometry instrumentation developer Kinetic River Corp. has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The six-month Phase I grant, totaling about $225,000, was issued to Kinetic...
Retina Image Takes First Prize in NIH’s Beauty of Science Competition
BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 20, 2016 — BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 20, 2016 — A confocal microscope image of a mouse retina shining with fluorescent molecules has been awarded first prize in the National Institutes of Health's 2016 Combined Federal Campaign "Beauty of Science," an arts...
NIH Awards $1.4M Grant to Support Optogenetics Research
JUPITER, Fla., Oct. 19, 2016 — A $1.4 million, three-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been awarded to Dr. Ryohei Yasuda, scientific director at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI)...
Dynasil Subsidiary RMD Receives $3.8M in Government Grants
NEWTON, Mass., May 12, 2016 — RMD Inc., a contract research subsidiary of optical solution developer Dynasil Corp. of America, has received six grants totaling $3.8 million from NASA, the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Department of Energy (DOE). The funding will be...
Tanner Awarded Horiba Young Fluorescence Investigator Award
EDISON, N.J., April 22, 2016 — Kandice Tanner of the National Institute of Health (NIH) has been awarded Horiba Scientific’s annual Young Fluorescence Investigator Award. Tanner is an investigator in the Laboratory of Cell Biology in the NIH Center for Cancer Research in...
UC Berkeley Nabs Grant for BRAIN Initiative, Teams with Zeiss
BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 13, 2014 — The University of California was awarded a total of $7.2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to conduct brain-related research as part of the national BRAIN Initiative. The grants will be dispersed over three years. In a...
Fluorescence Sensor Diagnoses Diabetes
STANFORD, Calif., July 17, 2014 — A microchip that detects fluorescent signatures of antibodies associated with Type 1 diabetes could aid in prevention and early intervention. Created by a team from the Stanford University School of Medicine, the portable gold plasmonic microchip...
Noninvasive Brain Control Possible with New Light-Sensitive Protein
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 30, 2014 — A new molecule, along with optogenetics, has put brain control in the hands of scientists. Researchers from MIT developed the protein, which is sensitive to red light and enables neurons to be manipulated noninvasively, as the controlling light...
Light Mitigates Alzheimer’s Symptoms
TROY, N.Y., June 4, 2014 — Those suffering from Alzheimer's disease and dementia could soon find some relief thanks to a developing light treatment. A new study by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that daytime light treatment could improve sleep and...
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