Dental laser manufacturer and distributor Biolase has opened its technology and training center at its corporate headquarters in Irvine, CA.

Lausanne, Switzerland--EPFL scientists have developed a chip-based optomechanical sensor that they say could revolutionize sensing and atomic force microscopy.

The first of its kind to use fluorescence to distinguish cancerous tissue from normal tissue in low-grade brain tumors, researchers have developed a fluorescent probe that could help brain surgeons.

Genome sequencing technology developer and maker Pacific Biosciences (NASDAQ:PACB) and nanoelectronics research center Imec (Leuven, Belgium) will enter into a multi-year research collaboration focused on developing advanced microchips for highly multiplexed, single-molecule genetic analysis.

Researchers at the Center for Laser Applications at the University of Tennessee Space Institute have developed a laser technology that finds, maps, and noninvasively destroys cancerous tumors.

SPIE has established a new award—the Biophotonics Technology Innovator award—which will honor extraordinary achievements in biophotonics technology development that show strong promise or potential impact.

Scientists at the Stowers Institute of Medical Research have developed a microscopy method—pairing fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) with calibrated imaging—to count the number of fluorescent molecules in a cluster, and then determine how DNA twists into a unique chromosomal structure called the centromere.

Researchers are applying a laser technique to design nanostructured reliefs on surfaces so that they acquire antibacterial properties and are more resistant to the formation of bacterial biofilms.

Cynosure (NASDAQ: CYNO) has received FDA clearance to market a home-use, over-the-counter device for treating facial wrinkles.

Global Industry Analysts (GIA) recently released a global report on biophotonics markets, forecasting them to exceed $99 billion by the year 2018.

Terahertz solutions and technology manufacturer TeraView has received approval by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to conduct in-vivo clinical trials for cancer research using the company's Terahertz Pulsed Imaging (TPI).

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, using fluorescent labeling and employing super-resolution microscopy, discovered how many bacterial diseases attack, including cholera, lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients, and chronic sinusitis.

Carl Zeiss Microscopy and Olympus America have entered into a nonexclusive worldwide licensing agreement that allows Carl Zeiss to access an extensive portfolio of patents held by Olympus in digital pathology and virtual microscopy.

Combining optical coherence tomography (OCT) and confocal microscopy could improve surgeries that remove malignant breast tumors, according to new research at Lehigh University.

Knowing that the ability to distinguish and isolate rare cells from a large population of assorted cells is essential for early disease detection and disease monitoring, engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a new optical microscope that can detect circulating cancer tumor cells, which are precursors to metastasis (the spread of cancer).

“…Fractional ablative lasers have become an amazing tool for correcting both the aesthetic and functionality issues presented by serious burn scars,” explains Jill Waibel, MD, medical director at Miami Dermatology and Laser Institute in a presentation at this year’s American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS) conference.

Even though age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa cause loss of ocular photoreceptors, most of the inner retinal neurons typically survive for a long time.

Researchers at Konkuk University and the National Cancer Center are using the Cerenkov radiation produced in plastic fibers as a signal.

Physicists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) directed light from the Dresden Laser Acceleration Source (DRACO) perpendicularly and obliquely onto a thin metal foil, allowing them to demonstrate for the first time that accelerated protons follow the direction of the laser light, which could be promising for cancer therapy.