May 2009 Features
These optical fibers could save lives
A start-up company is developing fibers that could provide real-time information as cardiologists op...
The Long and Short of Biomedical Imaging
What you can’t see can hurt you. Cancer and other diseases can remain undetected until it’s too late...
Making cells stick to a nonstick surface
Teflon’s nonstick properties make it ideal for more than pots and pans. The material, also known as ...
Optical Tweezers: Empowering Biology with the Force of Light
Over the past few years, optical tweezers increasingly have been used to answer questions of biologi...
The Stimulus Package and You
On Tuesday, Feb. 17, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARR...
News & Features
Are you sure that’s organic?
Organic foods are in great demand, and consumers are willing to pay higher prices for the reassuranc...
State-of-the-art technology maps the way to brain and spine surgery
Sacred Heart Hospital is one of 17 hospitals in the world equipped with a configuration of state-of-...
Handheld microscope diagnoses skin cancer
Tissue changes in appearance before full-blown cancer develops. If doctors notice odd-looking tissue...
Satellite keeps an eye on beetles
In the early nineteenth century, a small Eurasian tree was imported into the US for ornamental use a...
New technique gets under people’s skin
Researchers have designed a real-time imaging system that could advance physical rehabilitation for ...
Eye on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Diagnosis of a medical condition whose symptoms vary can be tricky: Without specific tests, it can t...
Technology advances drive MRI imaging scanner market
Technological breakthroughs will help the MRI imaging scanner market weather the economic downturn, ...
Applied Biosystems
In Carlsbad, Calif., Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies Corp., has selected the rec...
Meiji Techno UK
Meiji Techno UK, based in Axbridge, has opened a new training and demonstration facility in the same...
Hybrigenics
Biopharmaceutical company Hybrigenics, based in Paris, has signed a contract as part of the European...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. of Philadelphia has signed a partnership agreement with Symyx Technolo...
Roche Group
Roche Group of Basel, Switzerland, has acquired Genentech of San Francisco. All of the latter compan...
CLC bio
CLC bio of Aarhus, Denmark, has agreed to provide its entire suite of bioinformatics tools to the Ei...
Hologic Inc.
Bedford, Mass.-based Hologic Inc. has received FDA approval for two of its tests for the human papil...
MatriCal Bioscience
MatriCal Bioscience of Spokane, Wash., and Process Analysis and Automation of Farnborough, UK, have ...
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