Despite its usefulness for bioimaging, fluorescence tagging has critical limitations. But a variant called fluorescence lifetime inherently solves longstanding problems and offers...

Biophotonics aids in the ultimate quest to understand how our bodies work, as scientists create increasingly capable optical systems and techniques to track the molecular components...

Technology was a focus at Neuroscience 2014 (November 15-19; Washington, DC), where in past years the tools behind the developments have been difficult to discern.

The Advances in Biomedical Optics and Photonics event (November 12, 2014) held at The City College of the City University of New York (New York, NY) included a tour of the Institute...

Visitors flying in to Philadelphia, PA for the 2014 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting (December 6-10) began their cell-bio immersion at the airport, where a display...

Scientists have demonstrated the use of disguises to sneak biomaterials containing peptide-signaling molecules into the bodies of living animals.

Type 2 diabetes mellitus affects 1 in 12 adults worldwide, and a class of drugs called sulfonylureas are a mainstay of diabetes therapy.

One compact device converts an ordinary smartphone into a fluorescence microscope capable of single-molecule detection and measurement, while another uses holography to do the...

That's right, 2015 is the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies—as proclaimed by The United Nations (UN) General Assembly 68th Session more than a year ago....