• 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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    Inno-Spec GmbH
    April 1, 2025
    The BlueEye UV hyperspectral imaging system operates from 220 to 380 nm.
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    March 31, 2025
    The CMS196V4 stage supports cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy (cryo-CLEM).
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    In Episode 44 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast, Antonio Castelo, EPIC’s technology manager for Biomedical and Lasers, talks with Alexander Weigl, head of product ...
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    March 21, 2025
    The HT-X1 Plus bioimaging platform is designed for high-resolution, high-throughput 3D imaging of cells and organoids.
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    The OCL-480 GIR single-chip broadband LED source emits a broad spectrum from 420 to 1050 nm,

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    FIGURE 1. Transforming bacteria into solar-powered lasers: we extract light-harvesting structures from bacteria (left), enhance them with proprietary specially engineered lasing units (middle), and place them into a lasing cavity (right) to create a new type of laser that runs directly on sunlight. The natural light-gathering rings (green/purple) of purple bacteria measure 60-nm across and achieve near-perfect efficiency in energy transfer of captured photons.
    Erik Gauger
    Feb. 7, 2025
    A new way to power space missions piggybacks on bacteria's efficient light-harvesting abilities to create sunlight-powered lasers—and could enable power transmission between satellites...
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    An orange wavelength has been added on the Cobolt 06-01 Series of modulated lasers.
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    CRAIC Technologies
    Dec. 21, 2024
    The Apollo M confocal Raman microscope is designed for materials research, nanotechnology, and semiconductor analysis.
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    Depiction of the adaptive sampling scheme, in which a laser beam patterned by a digital micromirror device selectively illuminates neurons and their activity in brain tissue.
    Justine Murphy
    Dec. 13, 2024
    A novel fluorescence microscope offers enhanced insight into how different neurons in the brain communicate and interact.