In this episode of Photonics Hot List:
Clean drinking water is a basic need. It’s not always accessible to everyone, though, nor is quick water quality testing, particularly in developing countries and areas hit by natural disasters. But a lensless fluorometer tool could be key to addressing the problem.
What if a single drop of blood could someday be all that’s needed for doctors to detect and identify multiple health conditions? A new health screening approach that combines IR spectroscopy and machine learning could make it possible.
As many of the mechanical properties of living cells are hidden, their innerworkings are largely a mystery. But a new method looking at random fluctuating movement via optical laser traps may help researchers see what’s inside these most basic units of life.
