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Microscopy method promising for neuroscience, regenerative medicine

02/03/2012

Nanotronics Imaging, which provides nano-inspection for semiconductors, will apply its microscopy inspection method to neuroscience, regenerative medicine, and other life science fields.

Cataract surgery performed on elephant using SD-OCT

02/02/2012 Marking the first time that a spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) imaging system has ever been used on an elephant, veterinarians performed the surgical removal of a cataract from C’sar, a 38-year-old African ...

Liquid laser detects genes linked to cancer

02/01/2012

Using a liquid laser, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a way to detect the slight genetic mutations that might predispose a person to a particular type of cancer or other diseases.

Wet AMD therapy study using fiber-optic light device yields positive results

01/30/2012 At the Retina Meeting 2012 held recently, Reid Schindler, MD, presented positive Phase I data from a human study assessing a new, minimally invasive device to treat wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), which causes v...

Consortium forms to tackle artificial tissue generation

01/27/2012

Under the leadership of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT), a consortium of 16 European partners from industry and the research community are tackling artificial tissue generation for implants.

Adaptive optics make their way to becoming more affordable

01/20/2012 Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC), a provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, has reduced the price of its Mini-DM and Multi-DM systems, which boost resolution in microscopes and ...

Two-photon microscopy method speeds whole-brain mapping

01/17/2012

Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have developed a two-photon microscopy method that enables highly detailed anatomical images made of whole brains.

Grant for students supports OCT-related travel expenses

01/13/2012 OCT News, in collaboration with Sensors Unlimited – Goodrich ISR Systems, has launched its annual Student Travel Grant Awards program, which assists students with travel expenses for optical coherence tomography (OCT)-related c...

Enlarged quantum dots could yield light source for biomedical imaging

01/12/2012 Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas and colleagues altered nanocrystal quantum dots by increasing their size to avoid their unpredictable blinking, making them a promising light source for illuminating the human bo...

Researchers engineer first ratiometric, single-protein red fluorescent pH sensor

01/11/2012

Researchers from Harvard Medical School have engineered the first ratiometric, single-protein red fluorescent pH sensor.

CELL BIOLOGY/IMAGING/ANALYSIS: Cell Bio event highlights and foretells change made possible by biophotonics

01/10/2012 A session on quantitative live cell microscopy by researchers from Harvard Medical School—presented during the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) annual meeting (December 3–7, 2011)—demonstrated how computer vision and bi...

HIGH-SPEED IMAGING/ADVANCED MICROSCOPY/OPTOGENETICS: The technology behind the science: Exhibits deliver at Neuroscience 2011

01/06/2012 As ever, it was difficult to find technology in the conference program at the Society for Neuroscience’s 2011 annual meeting (November 12–16, 2011). The presentations focused on science—though in many cases, that science depend...