The ability to analyze body fluid traces is critical for determining the key details of a crime. Now, a combination of advanced statistical methods and multidimensional Raman spectroscopic signatures shows potential for addressing the shortcomings of standard approaches and minimizing false-negatives and positives. What’s more, the approach has several other potential applications.

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 biology are changing each other.

Some optics manufacturers cite the life sciences market as being a significant driver of their business.

During BiOS 2011, SPIE announced the launch of the Britton Chance Biomedical Optics award, to honor the memory of the prolific researcher, instructor, and leader whose contributions were so key to biomedical optics and photonics.

You’ve heard of a lab on a chip: Now a group of researchers have developed a “lab on a bubble” approach to quickly concentrate samples in order to detect biological molecules.

For the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre, the new year launches a five-year, £2.6 million ERC Advanced Grant designed to advance biophotonics research in the near- to mid-infrared range that should eventually produce fast, low-cost spectroscopic point-of-care devices and chemical analysis tools for protecting water quality and food safety.

Researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology adopted a "reverse" approach to spectroscopy, which cleans up images by eliminating background noise.

Robert Alfano, distinguished professor of physics at City College of New York (New York, NY), has been awarded the first SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award in recognition of his pioneering work in biomedical optics and ultrafast laser spectroscopy.

After outgrowing the San Jose convention center and moving to San Francisco in 2010, SPIE Photonics West 2012 will grow yet again, both in terms of number of attendees as well as technical content and exhibition size.

Belfast, Northern Ireland--A joint U.S.-Dutch team is using an Andor near-IR-enhanced Newton camera as part of a Raman Spectroscopy-OCT probe to screen for skin cancer.

The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is aiming to sort particles in biological fluids using laser-based, optofluidic methods that do not require prior knowledge of DNA sequence attributes or attachment of antibodies and/or fluorescent tags.

Abbott Molecular (NYSE: ABT) and GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals S.A. (GSK) are expanding an existing agreement between the two companies to include the development of an additional companion diagnostic test in support of GSK's cancer immunotherapy research program.

Professor James Wilkinson at the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to develop tools for fast, low-cost point-of-care clinical diagnostics and for chemical analysis in water pollution and food safety.