A novel optical biosensor developed by researchers at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre (iNANO) of Aarhus University in Denmark could help winemakers control the level ...
The annual Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition honors still and moving images of human, plant, and animal subjects as captured through light microscopes.
In an interview, biophotonics pioneer David Walt discusses his thoughts on education, entrepreneurship, and the future of photonics technologies for life sciences.
Fluorescence microscopy can detect concentrations of important biomarkers that are barely visible. Learn the three factors that influence the quality of quantitative fluorescence...
DNA sequencing based on laser-excited fluorescence is characterized by dramatic increases in throughput, equally impressive reductions in cost, and diverse technological innovations...
Despite its usefulness for bioimaging, fluorescence tagging has critical limitations. But a variant called fluorescence lifetime inherently solves longstanding problems and offers...
Biophotonics aids in the ultimate quest to understand how our bodies work, as scientists create increasingly capable optical systems and techniques to track the molecular components...
Technology was a focus at Neuroscience 2014 (November 15-19; Washington, DC), where in past years the tools behind the developments have been difficult to discern.
A new report from BCC Research (Wellesley, MA) forecasts that the global photomedicine market will reach $754 million by 2019, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)...
The Advances in Biomedical Optics and Photonics event (November 12, 2014) held at The City College of the City University of New York (New York, NY) included a tour of the Institute...
Visitors flying in to Philadelphia, PA for the 2014 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting (December 6-10) began their cell-bio immersion at the airport, where a display...
One compact device converts an ordinary smartphone into a fluorescence microscope capable of single-molecule detection and measurement, while another uses holography to do the...
X-ray-based diagnostics, by far the most widely used techniques for diagnosing bone disorders and diseases, are largely blind to the protein component of bone.
That's right, 2015 is the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies—as proclaimed by The United Nations (UN) General Assembly 68th Session more than a year ago....
