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Shedding a New Light on Cancer
The recent high-profile pancreatic cancer cases of actor Patrick Swayze and Apple CEO Steve Jobs have called attention to the more than 37,000 Americans who are diagnosed with the disease each year,...
Microfluidic Systems make the Impossible Possible
According to the Jan. 15, 2009, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, the market for microfluidic technology will climb toward $1.9 billion over the next three years. Shown are LabChips made...
Open Wide
It’s no surprise that William Brown is certain the future of lasers in dentistry is bright. After all, he is a vice president at dental laser maker Biolase Technology Inc. in Irvine, Calif. But that...
Unlocking Epilepsy’s Secrets
Their goal is to understand the epileptic brain. And the key just might be fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy – also known as FLIM. Michael J. Levene, assistant professor of biomedical...
Editorial
Light, Shadow and Sound
Of the many biomedical achievements that have transformed our lives, few are as heartening as the use of light to give people the gifts of sight and hearing. From Northwestern University comes news that researcher and associate professor Dr. Claus-Peter Richter has successfully used mid-infrared light to stimulate auditory nerves in guinea pigs. The experiments augur well for those who are...
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Imaging Webinars
Media Cybernetics Inc. offers an online library of educational seminars on a range of scientific imaging topics. The collection includes videos on image processing, deconvolution of wide-field and...
Photonics industry guide
The Optical Society of America has launched its Green Photonics Guide, subtitled The Optics and Photonics Industry’s Source for a Sustainable World. The online resource features a power search engine...
Beam measurement
Gentec Electro-Optics Inc. has released its 2009 Laser Beam Measurement product catalog, which presents power meters, thermopiles, beam profilers and joulemeters. Available in print or pdf, the...
Microscope automation
Prior Scientific, a manufacturer of high-precision microscope automation equipment and accessories, has redesigned its Web site to offer more centralized information about its products and services....
Image reconstruction
Part of the “Bioinformatics & Biomedical Imaging” series, the book High-Throughput Image Reconstruction and Analysis discusses bioimaging technologies, the vast amounts of data they generate and...
Fluorophores poster
Omega Optical Inc. has released an updated version of its “The Essence of Fluorescence” poster, which won the Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge award in 2005. The resource has been...
Postscripts
Sweeping the skies clear of malaria
At the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference held in February in California, Bill Gates spoke about the problem of malaria to an audience of upper-echelon technologists, business executives, designers, entertainers and scientists. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up to 350 million people contract malaria every year, and more than 1 million of them die from...
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Spectral engines
The Super Gamut series from BaySpec is a family of near-IR long-wave Raman spectral engines with applications in investigating biological, tissue and skin samples and in performing other surface analyses. The devices use a volume phase grating as the spectral dispersion element and an InGaAs array detector, providing parallel processing and continuous spectrum measurements. The engines cover the...
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UV LEDs
TT electronics Optek Technology has introduced a line of ultraviolet LEDs that can be used in medical and industrial applications, including phototherapy treatment, dentistry, fluorescence and...
Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control
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355-nm laser
The Cobolt Zouk from Cobolt AB is a compact CW diode-pumped solid-state laser that operates at 355 nm and delivers 10-mW output power and a TEM00 beam. It can be used as an alternative to the...
Cobolt AB
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Raman software
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has unveiled Omnic Specta software for use in Raman applications. Designed to enhance the performance of its DXR SmartRaman spectrometer and DXR Raman microscope, this...
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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X-ray camera
The Remote RadEye200 x-ray camera from Rad-icon Imaging Corp. offers a flexible design for complex imaging needs. Its x-ray sensor module is separated from the supporting electronics and mounted on a...
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Ultrafast amplifier
Coherent Inc. has released the Libra HE one-box ultrafast Ti:sapphire amplifier, which delivers higher pulse energy and shorter pulse widths than previous models. The device produces more than 3.5 mJ...
Coherent Inc.
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Imaging system
Applied Precision Inc. has introduced the DeltaVision OMX super-resolution imaging system, and the company says that it produces twice the optical resolution of traditional light microscopes. Based...
DeltaVision Microscopy Imaging Systems
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Diode lasers
The 63xx series near-infrared, high-brightness, multimode diode lasers from JDSU offers 10 W of CW power at 915, 940 or 976 nm from a 100-μm aperture. Featuring high efficiency and a metallorganic...
Lumentum Operations LLC
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Adapter
The Dual-Adapt light source adapter for microscopes, manufactured by CoolLED, allows two light sources to be fitted simultaneously to the epifluorescence port of a microscope. A mechanical switch...
CoolLED Ltd.
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Hyperspectral imaging
Headwall Photonics Inc. has expanded its Hyperspec family of hyperspectral imagers with the addition of the Hyperspec Extended VNIR sensor. The device, based on the company’s aberration-corrected...
Headwall Photonics Inc.
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Actuator series
The TRA actuator series precision motorized positioning devices has been introduced by Newport Corp. in a compact lightweight package. Designed to replace micrometer drives in manual stages, it has...
MKS/Newport
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VCSEL array
Princeton Optronics Inc. has released a high-power, thermally stable, backreflection-immune 1064-nm semiconductor laser based on 2-D planar vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) technology....
Princeton Optronics Inc.
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Laser platform
Sciton Inc. has launched Joule, an aesthetic laser platform that offers multiple laser wavelengths delivered through any of three modes – arm, fiber or broadband light. The platform provides...
Sciton Inc.
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Imaging accessories
Li-Cor Biosciences has added two accessories to its Pearl imaging system to help researchers prepare mice for imaging. The Pearl Docking Station is a stand-alone unit that provides heat and...
LI-COR Biosciences, Biotechnology
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Single-mode fiber
Fibercore Ltd. has unveiled the SM300, a single-mode fiber with an undoped silica core designed for high-power medical and biotechnical applications. Delivered in ultraviolet, blue and green...
Fibercore
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Lithography system
The SF-100 Xpress maskless exposure system from Intelligent Micro Patterning LLC is closely related to the company’s SF-100 Xtreme maskless lithography system. Built on the same platform, it offers...
Advanced Micro Patterning LLC
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Laser microdissection system
Leica Microsystems GmbH has released the Leica LMD7000, a laser microdissection system available with a power-adjustable, high-precision laser. High pulse repetition rates enable fast excision of...
Leica Microsystems GmbH
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Fluorescence measurement
Olympus Life Science Europa GmbH has announced that PicoQuant GmbH’s module for fluorescence lifetime imaging and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy can be fitted to the former company’s FluoView...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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Data acquisition software
A new version of PicoQuant GmbH’s data acquisition software is available for its TimeHarp 200 time-correlated single-photon-counting board. Version 6.1 provides a real-time correlator for...
PicoQuant GmbH
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Fluorescence detection
Starna Cells Inc. has introduced the Type 19FL ultramicro volume fluorescence lens cell for UV and visible spectrofluorometric analysis of 5-μl samples or less. Although the device is 5% less...
Starna Cells Inc.
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Microspectrometer
The QDI 2010 UV-VIS-NIR microspectrometer from Craic Technologies offers an expanded measurement range for deep-UV, visible and NIR transmission, permitting one-button capture of absorbance,...
CRAIC Technologies
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