The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognizes the efforts that resulted in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. New work by the honorees demonstrates the benefits of their...
Respiratory rate (RR) is a key indicator of health. But currently, RR measurement depends on contact methods, with inherent difficulties such as patient discomfort, setup complication...
Edmund Optics' 2014 Educational Award program, which recognizes outstanding undergraduate and graduate optics programs at non-profit colleges and universities, was dominated by...
Exact Sciences has achieved a milestone with its fluorescence-based molecular diagnostics tool for noninvasive colorectal cancer and precancer testing: Cologuard will be covered...
On National Manufacturing Day, October 3, 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a new competition to award more than $200 million in public and private investment to create...
With its focus on helping system and device developers prepare and launch biophotonics-based innovations, the Strategies in Biophotonics conference covered a range of topics from...
The National Eye Institute has allocated a total of $1.72 million in grants to Bioptigen for development of microscope-integrated intraoperative OCT technology.
Trumpf awarded its biennial Berthold Leibinger Zukunftpreis and Innovationspreis in September 2014 to celebrate outstanding development and scientific work on the application ...
Leaders of the National Photonics Initiative launched its Photonics Industry Neuroscience Group alongside officials from the White House OSTP in conjunction with the White House...
The large diameters (15-35 nm) of commercial quantum dots (QDs) preclude their use in spatially confined biological environments such as cell junctions and neuronal synapses.
Nearly 40 percent of patients undergoing breast-conserving cancer surgery need subsequent surgery to remove tumor margins that are positive (cancerous) or close (suspicious).
A new type of nanoparticle, in combination with an FDA-approved PDT, has been shown to effectively kill deep-set cancer cells in vivo with minimal damage to surrounding tissue...
A major limitation of optical measurement in biological tissue is that imaging depth is limited by aberration and light scattering. Adaptive optics (AO) and other methods can ...
Nov. 13, 2014
(Image courtesy of the Betzig Lab, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus)
As the Nobel Committee for Chemistry was announcing the 2014 prize would go to Eric Betzig, Betzig and colleagues were preparing to announce a publication describing lattice light...
What an exciting time for biophotonics watchers! From the U.S.'s launch of the Photonics Industry Neuroscience Group, alongside officials from the White House Office of Science...
