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PerkinElmer to Acquire BioLegend in $5.25B Life Sciences Deal WALTHAM, Mass., July 26, 2021 — PerkinElmer (PE) will make the largest transaction in its history. The company has entered into an agreement to acquire BioLegend, a global provider of life science antibodies and reagents, in a deal worth approximately $5.25 billion. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of this year. The combined company will generate immediate revenue synergies that are expected to reach $100 million annually by the fifth year following the closing. No significant cost synergies are
On-Demand Optical Singularities Strengthen Range of Applications CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 26, 2021 — A group led by Federico Capasso at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has broadened the study of optical singularities to include to zero-dimensional (point) and 2D (sheet) optical singularities. The group...
Yale Team Produces Memory from Speckle Patterns NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 20, 2021 — Researchers at Yale University have developed a way to significantly increase the memory of speckle patterns, the very complex patterns that result from shining a laser light onto an opaque sheet, such as paper, biological tissue, or fog. The method...
Photonics News: Week in Brief: 07/16/21 Jul 16, 2021 — AUSTIN, Texas — Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, with industry collaborators Samsung, NVIDIA, AT&T, Qualcomm, and InterDigital, will launch a 6G research center called [email protected] on the school’s campus. The center aims to...
Apple Supplier Rockley Photonics Unveils Wearable Health-Monitoring Tech OXFORD, England, July 14, 2021 — Silicon photonics technology company Rockley Photonics has unveiled a health monitoring solution that it is calling a “clinic-on-the-wrist” digital health sensor system. Through the technology, which uses a miniaturized chip that...
Cranial Windows Allow Simultaneous Imaging of the Brain’s Different Regions WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2021 — Researchers from Tsinghua University have developed a way to image multiple areas of the brain at the same time, both on the brain’s surface and deep inside the brain. Since brain processes often span multiple regions of the brain, researchers...
Opto-Refrigerative Tweezers Overcome a Hot Problem AUSTIN, Texas, July 12, 2021 — A tweak to optical tweezer technology introduced by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin fixes the problem of heat that affects the tool. The prolonged interaction with the laser beam can alter molecules and particles or damage them with...
Wearable Sensor Measures Light Emission on Skin to Monitor Tissue Oxygenation WASHINGTON, D.C., July 8, 2021 — Researchers have combined an oxygen-sensing film and machine learning to create a wearable sensor capable of measuring tissue oxygenation through a person’s skin. Developed by researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at...
Photoswitchable Molecule Gives Scientists Light-Based Control of Changes in Brain States BARCELONA, Spain, July 6, 2021 — A team of scientists in Spain has directly photomodulated brain-state transitions in vivo using a photoswitchable molecule that was developed previously by researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). By applying a...
Lens-Free Fluorescence Microscope Achieves High Throughput, High Resolution EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, July 5, 2021 — A fluorescence microscope being developed by imec researchers will be able to achieve high throughput and high resolution, without a lens component. The technology could significantly speed up next-generation DNA sequencing and cellular research, as...
3D Laser Beams Change Shape to Match Application EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 2, 2021 — Researchers at the National Robotarium at Heriot-Watt University secured funding to develop 3D laser beams that can be shaped to match industry needs and tailored to the task at hand. The funding — from the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
CELLINK Will Acquire Hybrid Microscopy Developer Discover Echo BOSTON, July 1, 2021 — Bioconvergence company CELLINK has entered an agreement to acquire Discover Echo Inc., a San Diego-based microscopy and imaging company. The acquisition is CELLINK’s third since mid-May, when it announced on consecutive days that it had...
POC Device Combines Optics, Ultrasound to Improve Thyroid Cancer Screening CASTELLDEFELS, Spain, June 29, 2021 — An EU-funded development project for detecting thyroid cancer has produced an optical device that could give doctors a reliable, low-cost way to determine whether a thyroid nodule is malignant or benign. The five-year project, named Laser and...
Flow Cytometer Operates on Microfluidic Platform, Sorts Cells into Subpopulations EXETER, England, June 28, 2021 — Scientists from the University of Exeter’s Living Systems Institute have developed a flow cytometer that can move individual cells between “virtually” separate microfluidic channels — thereby exposing them to a substance that...
Mechanoradical Coupling Strategy Ups Generic Polymers' Value SAPPORO, Japan, June 15, 2021 — A Hokkaido University research team has developed a method to give luminescent properties to generic polymers, potentially transforming existing commodity polymers into more valuable functional materials. The technique is based on mechanical force,...
Light-Responsive Hydrogels Use Nanomaterials to Safely Deliver Targeted Therapies COLLEGE STATION, Texas, June 14, 2021 — A research team at Texas A&M University is using nanomaterials that absorb near-infrared (NIR) light to develop and manipulate light-responsive hydrogels. The NIR light to which the nanomaterials respond in the research enables therapeutic...
Quantum Microscope Achieves Unprecedented Clarity in Cellular Imaging BRISBANE, Australia, June 11, 2021 — A quantum microscope developed at the University of Queensland can resolve cellular structures that would otherwise be impossible to see. The technology overcomes a significant barrier to furthering microscopy for biological imaging. According to...
Fluorescence Microscopy Technique Images Brain at High Resolution WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2021 — A noninvasive brain imaging technique developed by researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich works in the near-infrared (NIR) spectrum to enable superresolution deep-tissue fluorescence microscopy at four times the depth limit imposed...
Photoacoustic Computerized Tomography Images the Brain with Laser Light PASADENA, Calif., June 8, 2021 — Caltech professor Lihong Wang has demonstrated a technology capable of imaging the human brain with laser light and ultrasonic sound waves. The technology is known as PACT, for photoacoustic computerized tomography. First developed to image tissues...
Hyperspectral Imaging, OCT Team to Detect Early Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease LEUVEN, Belgium, June 2, 2021 — A team of scientists and engineers from Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, Universitair Ziekenhuis (UZ) Leuven, and the research organization VITO, collaborating with the international research and development group imec, used imec’s...
People in the News: 06/02/21 Jun 2, 2021 — TORONTO — Synaptive Medical appointed Mark Hanrahan CFO. Hanrahan joins the surgical robotics and medical imaging company from Just Energy, where he served as chief strategy officer. BEDFORD, N.H. — Raj Chakraborty is the managing...
Printable Device May Restore Sight to the Blind SYDNEY, June 2, 2021 — An “artificial retina” developed at the University of Sydney may one day restore sight to the blind, according to its creator, Matthew Griffith of the Australian Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis and the School of Aerospace,...
AI-driven Method Developed to Diagnose Neurodegenerative Diseases DURHAM, N.C., May 28, 2021 — A combination of OCT, adaptive optics, and neural networks has the potential to enable better diagnosis and monitoring for eye and brain diseases, such as glaucoma, that damage neurons. The combination is part of an AI-drive process developed by...
Organic Optogenetics Tool Shines Light on Brain Communication REHOVOT, Israel, May 25, 2021 — Light-sensing proteins called rhodopsins are used in optogenetics to control neuronal activity, but existing rhodopsins can have low efficacy, especially when they are used to control synaptic activity between neurons. A mosquito-derived rhodopsin...
3D-Printed Microlenses Correct Color Distortions in Small-Scale Images WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2021 — Researchers from the University of Stuttgart used a 3D-printing process called two-photon lithography to make highly precise lenses that are just a few micrometers in size and that reduce chromatic aberrations. The miniature lenses could be used in...
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