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    Recent advances in optics and electronics could make cytometric technology highly affordable and broadly applicable within the next few years, filling new niches and challenging...
    March 18, 2014
    Recent acquisitions promise to strengthen the positions of HORIBA in fluorescence spectroscopy and Oxford Instruments in nano-bio.
    March 18, 2014
    A $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is helping researchers optimize optical coherence tomography (OCT) to improve...
    March 18, 2014
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    A new lab test at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (PA; CHOP) uses next-generation sequencing (MiSeq from Illumina; San Diego, CA) in an effort to improve transplant outcomes...
    March 18, 2014
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    The surface of a Blu-ray disc is hydrophobic, allowing proteins to be locked in place by passive adsorption in a high-density format (64 points in each 1 mm2 drop).
    A test that uses Blu-ray technology to detect Salmonella, toxic substances, allergens, and cancer biomarkers could help under-resourced installations access capabilities currently...
    March 18, 2014
    This mid-IR fiber laser owes its ability to produce 25X the power of standard lasers to a novel setup. The result is greater sensitivity, and thus an ability to analyze breath among other gases.
    A fiber laser able to produce 25 times more light than other lasers operating at a similar wavelength has proven able to detect very low concentrations of gases.
    March 18, 2014
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    An overview of the MRI/NIR spectroscopy system. The NIR spectroscopy system is housed in the MRI control room (a) and light is piped into the MRI suite for patient imaging using fiber-optic cables (b). A combined MRI/NIR spectroscopy breast coil (c) makes simultaneous MRI and NIR spectroscopy imaging possible.
    A new approach that combines magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy could spare women with suspicious mammogram results from invasive biopsies ...
    March 18, 2014
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    A new material with light-activated adhesive properties promises a dramatic improvement in treatment for children born with certain heart defects.
    March 18, 2014
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    Efficient nanosheet photodetectors could dramatically improve low-light imaging equipment, including cameras for biomedical research and assessment as well as cell phone-based mobile diagnostics.
    Ultrathin "nanosheets" -- indium selenide (In2Se3)-based material made of highly efficient nano-sized light detectors -- could provide a huge benefit to low-light biomedical imaging...
    March 18, 2014
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    An in vivo molecular diagnostic system has proven clinically capable of real-time pre-cancer diagnosis during gastrointestinal endoscopy.
    March 18, 2014
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    Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis (MO) have turned a significant drawback of laser microscopy -- photobleaching -- into an equally significant advantage.
    March 18, 2014
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    The ability to visualize small biomolecules inside living biological systems with minimal disturbance has been a goal in the scientific community for years.
    March 18, 2014
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    Low-frequency light activation of dopamine (DA) neurons reduces a drinking binge by 54% and significantly delays the start of drinking. These are the findings of research on rats...
    March 18, 2014
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    Again and again at SPIE Photonics West 2014 (February 1-6), I found evidence of the importance of life sciences applications among optics and photonics suppliers and systems developers...
    March 18, 2014
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    The Biomedical Optics Symposium (BiOS) and BiOS Expo, the world's largest annual biomedical optics and biophotonics symposium and exhibition, kicked off SPIE’s Photonics West ...
    March 11, 2014