Researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada have developed a portable neuroimaging prototype for studying the effects of stroke recovery and epilepsy.

The European Network for Cell Imaging and Tracking Expertise (ENCITE), part of the European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (EIBIR), will host a workshop May 21–23 covering developments in cellular, whole-body optical, and optoacoustic technology; targeted nanoparticles; and smart activatable probes to follow cell migration, cell death, and other molecular processes.

Xavier Intes, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further his noninvasive optical molecular imaging technique to help identify and treat cancerous tumors.

Brian Pogue, Professor of Engineering and Dean of Graduate Studies at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), was recently named Chair of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s new grant review panel for Biomedical Imaging Technology.

Hopedale, MA and Boise, ID--Piezosystem Jena and Focal Point announced a new partnership to deliver turnkey autofocus systems for high-speed metrology and biological imaging applications.

The Optical Society (OSA) and the OSA Foundation (OSAF) have established the Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award, which honors Feld's fundamental contributions in Raman spectroscopy to diagnose tissues and image diseases via endoscopy and optical tomography.

Using fluorescence microscopy driven by image analysis software, researchers at the University of Münster have shown that the loss of the protein neurobeachin (Nbea) not only disrupts signaling within the neuron, but also leads to reduced numbers of spines (actin-rich dendritic protrusions) and the mislocalization of another common spine protein, synaptopodin.

Using x-ray crystallography, researchers from the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Gothenburg have managed for the first time to obtain detailed information about the role of the protein metastasin in the spread of tumor cells.

GE Healthcare, a unit of GE (NYSE:GE), and Dyax Corp. (NASDAQ:DYAX) entered into a licensing agreement for the development and commercialization of peptides binding to c-Met, which provides upfront, milestone, and royalty payments to Dyax.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a biosensor that includes fluorescent proteins embedded in a diatom shell (a type of marine algae that make up the bulk of phytoplankton) that alter their glow when they are exposed to a particular substance.

In a strategic collaboration, stem cell technology developer VistaGen Therapeutics and cell imaging technology specialist Vala Sciences will strive to advance drug safety screening methodologies.

Starfruit-shaped gold nanorods synthesized by researchers at Rice University could boost medical imaging and chemical sensing applications that depend on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).

Potsdam, Germany--Calcium carbonate microlens arrays can be fabricated quickly and without the need of a cleanroom environment, say researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Potsdam, the University of Konstanz, and KAIST (Daejeon, Korea).

HD color video imaging systems maker Toshiba Imaging is working with 3-D solutions company ISee3D on an advanced 3-D microscope digital video system using a single Toshiba three-chip CCD HD camera.