Articles and News - Biophotonics

Wasatch Photonics imaging technology could lower coronary disease mortality rate 04/01/2013 Logan, UT--Patients undergoing angioplasty or other heart-related medical procedures could benefit from new technology being developed at Wasatch Photonics with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
	European FAMOS project OCT laser source design detailed 03/27/2013 Vienna, Austria--The 17 partners who make up the European Union project called Functional Anatomical Molecular Optical Screening (FAMOS) would like to see optical coherence tomography (OCT) being used as widely as positron-emis...
Final call for CLEO/LFW Innovation Awards submissions 03/26/2013 Washington, DC--The deadline for the CLEO/LFW Innovation Awards is March 27; don't miss your chance to maximize exposure for your CLEO exhibited products.
	High-resolution endoscope is thin as a human hair 03/13/2013 Palo Alto, CA--Engineers at Stanford have developed a prototype single-fiber endoscope that improves resolution fourfold over existing designs.
	Study shows 3D display technology benefits surgeons 03/07/2013 Berlin, Germany--Until now, physicians have largely been skeptical of the advantages of 3D display technology -- but this may be about to change: the findings of a new study show that even experienced surgeons stand to benefit ...
	Artificial retina from Second Sight gets FDA approval 02/21/2013 Arlington, VA--The first bionic eye using artificial retina technology from Second Sight has been granted market approval for patients in the United States by the U.S. FDA.
	Bio-inspired optical fibers change color when stretched 02/19/2013 Cambridge, MA--Inspired by nature, materials scientists from Harvard and the University of Exeter have invented a new fiber that changed color when stretched.
UC Irvine neuroscientists terminate epileptic seizures with implanted optical fibers 01/24/2013 Irvine, CA--Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have invented a way to terminate epileptic seizures using optical fibers implanted in the brain.
Block Engineering to provide QCL-based pharmaceuticals cleaning-verification technology for Pfizer 01/18/2013 Marlborough, MA--Quantum-cascade laser (QCL) spectroscopy specialist Block Engineering has signed a collaborative agreement with pharmaceuticals maker Pfizer, Inc. (New York, NY; NYSE: PFE; research center located in Groton, CT...
	Graphene plasmonics device detects single molecules of drugs 01/14/2013 Manchester, England--Scientists at the University of Manchester, working with colleagues from Aix-Marseille University (Marseille, France), have created a device which potentially can see one molecule though a simple optical sy...
	Open Photonics facilitates R&D-to-commercialization process 01/14/2013 Orlando, FL--Jason Eichenholz has launched a new company called Open Photonics that aims to ease the R&D-to-commercialization process for companies interested in utilizing photonics technologies.
Metallic probe compound helps spectroscopic study of Parkinson’s disease 12/26/2012 Houston, TX--Researchers at Rice University have developed a spectroscopic technique that lets them look inside living cells and see the insoluble fibrillar deposits associated with Parkinson's disease.

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