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Breathalyzer for Cancer Studies have shown that dogs can detect cancer by smelling certain gasses on the breath of patients, but unfortunately dogs can’t tell us exactly what gasses they smell. Intrigued by the concept of ...	Newport Unit to Cut 80 Jobs Newport Corp.'s Spectra-Physics facility in Tucson has laid off 29 of its 200 workers and will let about 50 more go through the first quarter of 2009, according to media reports. The Arizona Daily Sta...
Cutting Cancer by Color The key to a successful cancer surgery is the removal of all of the diseased tissue, but sometimes tumor boundaries can be difficult to track. However, researchers in Massachusetts have developed a ne...	Cancer Probe Trials Funded A new grant will allow a researcher to continue developing and testing a device that uses light to detect skin cancer without the need for an invasive biopsy. University of Texas at Austin biomedical ...
Bruker AXS Buying AFM Maker Analytical x-ray systems manufacturer Bruker AXS GmbH of Karlsruhe, Germany, announced it will acquire the German company SIS (Surface Imaging Systems) GmbH, a maker of advanced atomic force/scanning ...	Eyeing the Biological Clock Our biological clock tells us when to eat, sleep, and when to wake up. Though we have evolved to coordinate our activities with the day/night cycle caused by the earth’s rotation, there is now evidenc...
Tiny Pen Prints Olympic Logo Nanoscientists have created a lithography technique that can print on the nanometer, micrometer and millimeter length scales quickly, easily and inexpensively through arrays of tiny polymer pens. In a...	SPIE Show Soars This year’s SPIE Optics+Photonics symposium was the largest meeting of the annual symposium thus far. The show, which ends today, enjoyed sessions on nano and solar technologies, strategies for commun...
Optrode Detects Toxin Traces You may never look at caviar the same way again: Researchers have created a fiber optic tool capable of detecting a range of harmful chemicals by using environmentally sensitive, days-old fish embryos...	Solar Cotton & Castor Beans After being held in the utmost secrecy for 18 months, BioSolar Inc. has unveiled a protective covering for photovoltaic (PV) solar cells made from cotton and castor beans.While not revealing core prop...
The Incredible, Edible Optic Sophisticated optical devices currently under development could allow you to safety eat that piece of cake and the sensor, too. Using fibers from silkworms to develop platform devices, scientists at T...	Event Adds Investment Forum A technology investment forum arranged in partnership with the Photonics Cluster (UK) will be one of the highlights of the new and improved Photonex 2008 when it is held Oct. 15 and 16 at Stoneleigh E...
Silicon Camera Mimics Eye The human eye's ability to use a curved surface to capture images has stumped research groups trying to reproduce it for the last 20 years. But now engineers report they have solved the problem by usi...	QD Laser Maker Secures $13M Innolume, a maker of quantum dot (QD) -based lasers and laser modules, said it has secured approximately $13.3 million (€8.6 million) after a Series C funding round led by S-Group Capital Management. ...
Light Project Awarded $1.5M A Stanford University researcher has received a $1.5 million grant to support his project aimed at using light to control a variety of cells. Dr. Karl Deisseroth, PhD, assistant professor of bioengine...	Corning Buying Component Biz Specialty glass and ceramics giant Corning Inc. will acquire Optimum Manufacturing Corp. for its Specialty Materials unit,the company announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Located in ...
On-chip Microscope Developed Computer chip technology has been combined with microfluidics to create a tiny lenseless microscope small enough to fit on a fingertip and with magnifying power that rivals top optical microscopes. Th...	NEMS Scale Weighs Gold Atom A nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) has been fashioned that can function as a scale sensitive enough to weigh a single atom of gold.Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California, B...
Lockheed Acquiring Aculight Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced today it will acquire privately held laser maker Aculight Corp. for an undisclosed amount. Bothell, Wash.-based Aculight, which was founded in 1993 a...	Telescope Embedded in Lens A wide-field telescope made of straight and curved mirrors and embedded into what appears to be a typical pair of glasses could make activities that require sharp distance vision, such as driving, eas...
Wrong Laser Aimed at Crowd A powerful pulsed laser intended for overhead use only was pointed into a crowd attending a music festival outside Moscow earlier this month, allegedly causing retina damage in dozens of people. A pul...	LEDs Created on Silicon By using inexpensive silicon wafers instead of pricey sapphire as a foundation for creating LEDs, researchers said they have overcome a major obstacle keeping solid-state lighting from becoming more w...
Subsurfaces Seen Sharply The high penetration power of x-rays has been combined with diffraction imaging to create a novel x-ray microscope that makes it possible, for the first time, to view the detailed interiors of semicon...	Mobile MRI Images Arctic Ice Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, familiar to many as the gigantic, expensive machines found in hospitals, are going mobile. They're also not just for medicine anymore: German researchers hav...
Laser Blamed, Drugs Eyed Moscow ophthalmologists are questioning Russian officials' determination that retina damage in young people at a techno music festival was due to improper use of a laser gun reportedly directed at the...	Revellers' Retinas Wrecked More than 30 audience members at a techno music festival may have permanently lost much of their vision after a laser used during the concert burned their retinas, a Russian newspaper reported yesterd...
Entegris Buying Poco Entegris, a maker of products for semiconductor and flat panel display processes, today announced it will acquire privately held Poco Graphite Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at $158 million. P...	Dynasil Acquires RMD for $20M Photonics company Dynasil Corp. of America announced July 2 that it acquired advanced instruments maker Radiation Monitoring Devices (RMD) and assets of RMD Instruments LLC for $20 million in cash and...
Light Pulse Speed Record Set Researchers have set a new record in ultrafast metrology, producing the first light pulses lasting only 80 attoseconds (a billionth of a billionth of a second). Electrons move at awesome speeds, so an...	Oerlikon Divests Magnetic IP Switzerland-based high technology company Oerlikon Balzers Ltd. is selling its magnetic media equipment assets and intellectual property (IP), the buyer, Intevac, announced last week. Financial terms ...
Agilent Buys Nano Instruments Measurement company Agilent Technologies Inc. announced today it has acquired the Nano Instruments business unit of MTS Systems Corp for an undisclosed amount to strengthen its nanomeasurement product...	StockerYale Begins Takeover With Virtek Vision International Inc.'s largest shareholder on its side, StockerYale Inc. today announced it is beginning a cash takeover bid for the Waterloo, Ontario-based maker of laser engraving, ...
Solar Research Tops Agenda The latest research, technologies and applications in solar and alternative energies, nanotechnology, organic LEDs, optical design and remote sensing will be discussed at SPIE Optics+Photonics 2008, t...	Patterns Classify Cancer Long has “nature versus nurture” been a convenient catchphrase to describe what determines or causes individual differences in physical and behavioral traits. Now, nature and nurture have both fou...
Lighting Up Life on Mars A method to identify organic matter in soils with ultraviolet (UV) light could be used to document the existence of life on Mars. A team of scientists from the US and the UK have reported a technique ...