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    • Bio&Life Sciences

    The laserfocusworld.com Bio & Life Sciences channel features articles and other content that discuss lasers, optics, and instrumentation for the life sciences.

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    Bio&Life Sciences

    Crystal ribcage opens black box of a functioning lung to optical imaging

    Rohin Banerji
    June 14, 2024
    A transparent ‘crystal’ ribcage enables first real-time, high-resolution optical imaging of a functioning lung from whole organ down to single-cell scales.
    (Image credit: Lingyan Shi/UC San Diego Bioengineering)
    Bio&Life Sciences

    PRM-SRS microscopy platform distinguishes specific lipid types

    Justine Murphy
    May 7, 2024
    A Raman microscopy-based imaging approach could crack the long-elusive code of lipids, their subtypes, and the key roles they play in human health, aging, and disease.
    (Courtesy of Albrecht Stroh, University Medical Center Mainz and Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research)
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Three-photon microscopy comes of age

    Lukas Kontenis
    May 3, 2024
    How does three-photon microscopy stack up against two-photon microscopy?
    (Image credit: Duke University)
    Bio&Life Sciences

    In memoriam: Joseph Izatt, OCT imaging pioneer

    LFW Staff
    April 10, 2024
    Izatt, whose work in optical coherence tomography (OCT) led to improvements in medical diagnostics, passed away April 7, 2024.
    (Photo credit: ZEISS)
    Optics

    ZEISS and Imperial College London run optics summer program for teens

    Sally Cole Johnson
    March 11, 2024
    Teens—14 and 15 years old—get opportunity to immerse themselves in optics for a week during the summer.
    (Image credit: Coherent)
    Lasers & Sources

    808 nm diode laser bar features two-junction configuration

    LFW Staff
    May 15, 2024
    An 808 nm diode laser bar employs a two-junction configuration to deliver 200 W of output with 100 A of input current.
    (Image credit: Nuburu)
    Executive Forum

    Nuburu: Building the blue light specialty

    Jose Pozo
    May 13, 2024
    Brian Knaley, the newly appointed CEO and incumbent CFO of blue laser technology company Nuburu, shares the mix of experiences and learnings that brought him—and the company—success...
    (Photo credit: CoolLED)
    Executive Forum

    LED illumination systems continue transition into science and industry

    Antonio Castelo
    May 8, 2024
    In this Q&A, CoolLED managing director Jake Davies chats with EPIC’s technology manager for biomedical and lasers.
    Photo 61112494 © Boaz Yunior Wibowo | Dreamstime.com
    Commentary

    The two applications shifting views of photonics

    Jose Pozo
    May 6, 2024
    Recent conferences have demonstrated new interest in two areas of growing potential: the use of photonics in medicine and space communications.