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Optical Filters Help PCR Tests Quickly Diagnose COVID-19 The need to implement technology that can rapidly diagnose diseases and pathogens accurately has never been greater than it is now, as the COVID-19 virus continues to spread around the world. Prior...
Multiphoton Exoscope Broadens Noninvasive Imaging of Skin Skin imaging at the cellular level is critical for understanding how diseases and aging affect the skin, and for developing strategies and therapies to prevent and combat these effects in a clinical...
Miniaturization in NIR Spectroscopy Reshapes Chemical Analysis Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been used in groundbreaking research in many of the life sciences due to its capacity to rapidly determine and analyze the composition of materials. Bulky...
The Hyperspectral Camera Looks Alzheimer’s in the Eyes Alzheimer’s disease is one of three so-called trillion-dollar diseases, along with cancer and diabetes — meaning that financial and societal costs are approaching $1 trillion worldwide. Diagnosis has...
Editorial
Building a better PCR test The spread of infections caused by variants of the coronavirus issues a stark reminder to the medical and scientific communities, and to the rest of us who rely on these communities, that the COVID-19 pandemic is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Late in 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) labeled variant B.1.1.529, commonly called omicron, as a variant of concern. Travel...
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AI Imaging Method Provides Biopsy-free Skin Diagnosis A deep learning-enabled imaging technology, developed by UCLA professor Aydogan Ozcan and colleagues, provides a noninvasive way to rapidly diagnose skin tumors, allowing earlier diagnosis of skin...
Temperature-based Method May Improve Detection of Skin Cancer An imaging technique developed by researchers at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), can measure temperature in 2D, without contact, and in real time. The method could improve...
Optofluidic Platform Identifies Drug-Resistant Disease Citing increased resistance to antibiotics on the rise globally, researchers from Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques (Fraunhofer IPM), working alongside those from the Ludwig...
Laser Ophthalmoscopy Provides Full Picture of Eye Disease For retinal diseases such as diabetic retinopathy (DR), which affect a wide area of the fundus, the interior surface at the back of the eye, it is important for clinicians to be able to examine a...
Nanodiamond-based Phantoms Stabilize Microscope Calibration Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are using microscopic nanodiamonds to calibrate and assess the performance of...
Cytek Extends its Flow Cytometry Capabilities Cell analysis solutions company Cytek Biosciences has acquired the cell analysis business of Tonbo Biosciences. The deal includes the acquired business’s portfolio of research reagents, which...
Optica Elects Vice President, Director at Large The membership of Optica, formerly OSA, elected Gerd Leuchs, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, as the society’s 2022 vice president. In addition, the...
Ptychography Technique Raises Imaging Throughput A resolution-enhanced parallel-coded ptychography technique developed by researchers at the University of Connecticut has achieved the highest numerical aperture and throughput to date, compared to...
IPG Founder Valentin Gapontsev Dies at 82 Valentin Gapontsev, founder, chairman, and former CEO of IPG Photonics, has died. “Valentin’s passing is a tremendous loss for the IPG community and the larger photonics world,”...
Photolithography Enables Mass Production of Microfluidic Chips High-tech printing company Toppan has developed technology to manufacture glass microfluidic chips using photolithography. Mass production of microfluidic chips using the technology will make it...
Jenoptik Grows its Components Portfolio Through Acquisitions Jenoptik will acquire Berliner Glas Medical Applications GmbH from ASML. Jenoptik will additionally acquire SwissOptic AG, and SwissOptic (Wuhan) Co. Ltd. Berliner Glas was acquired by lithography...
Microscope Slide Easily Detects Cancer Cells to Speed Diagnoses A microscope slide that is compatible with any optical microscope could hold implications for the future of cancer detection. The tool, called the NanoMslide, was developed by researchers at La Trobe...
Hybrid Metalens Supports Miniaturized Optics for Endoscopy Researchers at Boston University and Harvard University, with colleagues from the Misr University for Science and Technology in Egypt and the University of Waterloo in Canada, developed an...
Photoacoustic Imaging Technique Detects Arterial Plaques Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) used light-activated nanoparticles and photoimaging to locate and image cells found in the arteries, cells that could lead to heart attacks and strokes....
BioOpinion
Interoperability standards are needed for deep learning in medical imaging The life sciences and specifically health care are witnessing a renaissance in innovation for the application of various machine learning techniques, including the now-ubiquitous use of deep learning to assist in classification and data mining of medical imagery. While these developments are exciting, a deeper exploration of the opportunities for making promising solutions widely available...
Postscripts
Spectroscopists watch fruit dry Health-conscious consumers are placing increasing demands on food producers for both variety and freshness, while producers, in turn, seek convenient, sustainable solutions that will allow them to offer both. Food producers are branching out with technologies such as NIR spectroscopy to unite the wants and needs of grocers and their hungry patrons by ensuring the consistent quality of the dried...
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