Biophotonics and Life Sciences News
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National initiative aims to drive critical photonics technologies in US
05/23/2013
Nashua, NH--The National Photonics Initiative (NPI) has been launched to raise awareness of photonics, increase national coordination, and drive funding and ...
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Two-photon optogenetic tool promising for brain mapping
05/17/2013
A researcher at the University of Texas at Arlington has developed a fiber-optic, two-photon optogenetic stimulator that could help scientists map and track ...
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Silicon/CNT substrate from NASA JPL improves photocatalytic hydrogen production
05/16/2013
Pasadena, CA--NASA JPL is developing a device for hydrogen gas production based on water-splitting redox reactions facilitated by catalysts stacked on carbon...
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NinePoint Medical launches OCT imaging system commercially
05/16/2013
NinePoint Medical has launched its NvisionVLE Imaging System—an optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging system—commercially in the U.S. |
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Nanoscale alloys emit NIR light for medical applications
05/14/2013
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated that nanometer-scale alloys possess the ability to emit light so bright they could have potenti...
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Femtosecond lasers to replace trephine drills in cranial bone removal
05/14/2013
Dresden, Germany--Because a trephine drill can injure the outermost layer of the brain and lead to meningitis, researchers at several Fraunhofer Institutes i...
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Doped quantum dots yield amazing dye colors
05/13/2013
Chicago, IL--UIC researchers have developed a way to introduce precisely four copper "guest" ions into each and every quantum dot to produce specta...
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Optical approaches facilitate life sciences advances
This collection of articles constitutes a review of optical tools that are expediting biomedical advances in disease diagn...
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Plenary talk discusses optical nanoscopy at LASER World of Photonics
05/21/2013
The opening CLEO/Europe-IQEC plenary talk (on May 13, 2013), at the World of Photonics Congress in Munich, discussed far-f...
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Two-photon excited fluorescence imaging is useful for identifying ovarian tumors in mice
05/08/2013
I work at the University of Arizona in the Tissue Optics Lab, led by Dr. Jennifer K. Barton. Our lab focuses on developing...
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