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Laser Triggers Stem Cells to Fix Teeth
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 29, 2014 — A new low-light laser technique has shown the potential to regrow tooth cells. A team led by Harvard University has discovered that low-power light can prompt stem cells to regenerate tissue inside the body. This shows promise for regenerative medicine, specifically restorative dentistry. In their study, the researchers drilled holes in rodent subjects’ molars and illuminated the tooth pulp, which contains dental stem cells, with a low-power laser. Temporary caps were then
Optical Scanner Shines New Light on Brain
ST. LOUIS, May 21, 2014 — A new generation of optical neuroimaging touts effectiveness comparable to MRI and PET technologies, but has the ability to see and study areas of the brain that the others cannot. Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a new brain scanning technology...
With Laser Zap, Cocaine Addiction Vaporizes
SAN FRANCISCO, April 8, 2013 — 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.
Optics Community Hails Obama’s Brain Mapping Initiative
WASHINGTON, April 4, 2013 — Neuroscientists and bioengineers — including the inventor of a neuronal control technique involving gene therapy and lasers — voiced support this week for the BRAIN Initiative, unveiled by President Barack Obama at a White House press conference on...
Boston Micromachines Wins Adaptive Optics NIH SBIR Grant
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 14, 2013 — Boston Micromachines Corp. (BMC) has received a $1.2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to fabricate a retinal imaging system using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based deformable mirrors for wavefront correction.
US Science Community Braces for Budget Cuts
WASHINGTON, March 1, 2013 — As the $85 billion in automatic US government spending cuts known as a sequestration loom closer, the science community braces for the impact of severe cuts on basic scientific research.
The other side of the apocalypse
Dec 28, 2012 — We seem to have survived the end of the world, though we can hardly say we’ve survived it unscathed. Even in the context of an already difficult year, the past several months have felt like a brickbat to the head. A bruising campaign season...
NIH Awards Vixar VCSEL Contract
PLYMOUTH, Minn., Sept.26, 2012 — Optoelectronic components and subassemblies supplier Vixar has received an SBIR Phase I contract from the National Institutes of Health to demonstrate the feasibility of a wavelength-tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser.
Biophotonics Researchers Receive Innovator Awards
LA JOLLA, Calif., Sept. 20, 2012 — Bjorn Lillemeier and Axel Nimmerjahn of the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center will each receive $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health as two of only 51 recipients of the award that recognizes visionary scientific efforts.
Thousands of Cells Tracked Via Lensless Imaging
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18, 2012 — A novel lensless computational imaging platform is being touted as a new way to observe and track large numbers of rapidly moving objects under a microscope, capturing precise motion paths in three dimensions. For the first time, the 3-D helical...
The Ongoing Struggle Over Translational Research
Aug 1, 2012 — If the National Center for Advancing Translational Science were a person with feelings and a fragile sense of self-worth, it might be feeling snubbed and even a bit wounded these days. Sure, the Obama administration’s budget proposal released...
$1.8M Grant Funds Adaptive Optics Study for Glaucoma
HOUSTON, Feb. 3, 2012 — A $1.85 million NIH grant will support a study to determine the effectiveness of adaptive optics in capturing the earliest cellular changes signaling the onset of glaucoma, which may lead to earlier diagnosis of the blinding disease.
Researchers to NIH: “If It Ain’t Broke…”
Feb 3, 2011 — Investigators in optical imaging and other biomedical fields are troubled by developments at the National Institutes of Health, where the creation of a new research center will lead to the dismantling of an older one, which many look upon as an...
Nanoparticles and the Environment
Nov 1, 2010 — Nanoparticles released into the environment can have a wide range of biological effects. These effects can depend not only on the specific chemical makeup of the nanoparticles in question, but also in the aggregate morphology that the materials may...
IU Gets New 3-D Microscope
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 13, 2010 — A new laser-equipped microscope at Indiana University, Bloomington’s Light Microscopy Imaging Center makes it possible to examine biological samples with unprecedented detail in three dimensions. The $1.2 million DeltaVision OMX...
Omega Optical, Spectral Molecular Win SBIR Award
BRATTLEBORO, Vt., Aug. 18, 2010 — Omega Optical Inc. announced it has won a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Cancer Institute to develop a high-speed fiber optic-based optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) that will be interfaced to confocal scanning...
GE Awarded $4M NIH Grant
NISKAYUNA, N.Y., June 14, 2010 — Researchers from GE Global Research were awarded a four-year, $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to optimize a nerve labeling agent and imaging system. Cristina Tan Hehir, GE biochemist and project leader on the...
Lightworks Optics Begins 2nd Year of NIH Grant
TUSTIN, Calif., June 10, 2010 — Precision optical subassemblies and systems provider LightWorks Optics Inc., announced it received approval for the second year of funding fro a Small Business Innovation Research Grant (SBIR) awarded by the National Institute of Health (NIH). ...
The Year in Stimulus Funding: The impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on biomedical research
Mar 23, 2010 — Dr. Francis S. Collins had, as they say, his work cut out for him. In early August 2009, the former head of the Human Genome Project was sworn in as the 16th director of the NIH and thus was charged with overseeing what President Obama would later...
The struggle to keep research real
Feb 28, 2010 — Beneath a scientist’s lab coat beats a human heart. So it should be no surprise that researchers sometimes fudge – or outright fake – their data. Often, this manipulation takes the form of a doctored image. Michael Kalichman, director of the...
SPIE Medical Imaging: Advancing Public Health
Feb 18, 2010 — Here in Southern California we have difficulty grasping the true nature of weather extremes. We hear reports of storms burying Boston, Philly and DC under several feet of snow. We ...
Defining How Photons Touch Flesh
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29, 2010 – The discussion started out strangely, then gathered steam. Steven Jacques, SPIE Fellow and professor of biomedical optics at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland waited quietly at the front of the conference room as it slowly filled....
What's New with PCR
Sep 1, 2009 — Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), the workhorse of biological analysis, is used in areas ranging from criminal investigations and disease diagnosis to biological research. For example, it is the test that determines whether a strand of hair found at...
Carbon Design Receives Grant
Aug 12, 2009 — Carbon Design Innovations Inc., a carbon nanotube device manufacturer located in Burlingame, Calif., has received a $390,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The grant will fund...
NIH Review Changes Outlined
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2, 2009 -- NIH’s James Bjork outlined upcoming changes to the institute’s peer-review process, which he said is essentially to "fund the best science, by the best scientists, with the least amount of administrative burden."
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