04/12/2013
At this year's American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS) annual conference, held April 3-7 in Boston, MA, keynote speaker Robert S. Langer, Sc.D., David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, joked that he "...probab...
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03/26/2013
Recently, our lab--the Biomedical Photonics Research Group at Vanderbilt University--has discovered that the parathyroid glands (four rice-size glands in the throat) emit an intrinsic fluorescence when excited with near-infrare...
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03/26/2013
An undated page on the site of Real-Time Analyzers, Inc. (Middletown, CT) states that the company's RamanID system is "the only portable Raman analyzer that employs 1064 nm laser excitation to avoid fluorescence interference." ...
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02/21/2013
Christine AmwakeI am privileged to work with a highly interdisciplinary team where engineers work together with life scientists to solve interesting biological questions and pursue clinical applications of our work. The enginee...
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02/04/2013
In his presentation on optical coherence tomography (OCT) during the 2013 Laser Marketplace Seminar (at Photonics West), Eric Swanson, serial entrepreneur and publisher of OCTnews, provided a comprehensive tour of OCT appl...
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01/29/2013
Ahmet F. CoskunHuman reproduction has been responsible for genetic diversity among offspring, resulting in unique features in human populations. Remarkable factors causing this diversity include the variations in the genome of ...
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