The neurotechnology industry—comprising devices, diagnostics, and drugs targeting the brain and the rest of the nervous system—grew 5.6% in 2011 to $158.6 billion in revenues, reports market research firm NeuroInsights.

A light-activated bio-adhesive based on a polymer derived from chitin—a substance found in fungi, crustaceans, and insects—offers advantages over sutures for delicate and hard-to-reach tissue.

A tissue analysis method involving both Raman and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, along with statistical analysis, has proven able to highlight the difference between normal brain tissue and various types of brain tumors.

Fluorescence microscopy is currently limited by the number of colors available, and sometimes the colors blur. But an approach developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University enables colored dots to be arranged in nearly limitless combinations—thus substantially boosting the number of distinct molecules or cells observable in a sample.

While optical coherence tomography (OCT) has proven immensely useful in both ophthalmology and dermatology, it has not been able to capture sufficiently detailed subcutaneous images to detect the early stages of cancer or to monitor skin cancer progression.

BiOptix will hold an instrument trial program—the BiOptix Innovators Program—to enable researchers and institutions to learn more about the company's 404pi surface plasmon resonance (SPR) instrument.

Scientists at the University of New South Wales have developed a laser-activated, chitosan-based, bio-adhesive polymer called SurgiLux.

Washington, DC and Bellingham, WA--Both OSA and SPIE are pleased that UNESCO has declared 2015 the International Year of Light.

Lumetrics has obtained a $973,000 research and development (R&D) grant from the National Institutes of Health – National Eye Institute to fund development of a digital handheld diagnostic ophthalmic instrument.

The European Commission has awarded a $13.1 million FP7 grant to a pan-European biophotonics consortium, ‘FAMOS,’ which plans to develop new, advanced lasers and light sources for diagnosing and treating major diseases, including skin cancer and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Researchers have shown that exposure to morning short-wavelength “blue” light has the potential to help sleep-deprived adolescents prepare for the challenges of the day and deal with stress.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded medical device manufacturer Neuro Kinetics (NKI) with a $2.4 million contract to advance the application of the company's I-Portal oculomotor (eye movement) tracking technology for battlefield testing of combat brain injuries.

A portable optical scanner developed by the Tufts University School of Engineering offers several promising advantages over traditional mammography.

New research shows that natural silk could be an eco-friendly alternative to more traditional ways of manipulating light, such as through glass or plastic fiber-optic cables.

Washington, DC--SUNY researchers will present a special contact lens at Frontiers in Optics 2012 that could cure myopia or nearsightedness in children.

Researchers in Europe and the US have developed microscopes that employ a scientific CMOS (sCMOS) camera to enable imaging rapid biological processes in thick samples in unprecedented detail.

Scientists from the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of the University of Freiburg have developed a laser-driven optical trap that can grab and scan tiny, elongated bacteria.

Engineers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a handheld optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanner to enable primary care physicians, for the first time, to see inside the human body in real time to diagnose illnesses.

By combining laser microdissection and next-generation sequencing (NGS), researchers at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) Department of General and Molecular Botany have analyzed gene activity in the whole genome of small, multicellular fungi in one pass.