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BioPhotonics - May 2010


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Medicine and the life sciences add fiber Compact, reliable, powerful and efficient, fiber lasers are being put to use in medicine and the life sciences, where one device can replace a half dozen or so other lasers or can enable higher-resolution imaging, thereby offering new capabilities. The key to expanding such applications, though, may lie in cutting costs and improving laser performance. More than skin deep For Solta Medical Inc....
Fractional Laser Skin Treatment Using Diffractive Optics Fractional laser skin treatment, also known as fractional photothermolysis, is a relatively new method of skin rejuvenation in which the targeted areas of the skin are precisely spaced out at a...
Bringing Superresolution to Fluorescence Microscopy The latest incarnation of the modern fluorescence microscope has led to a paradigm shift. This wave is about breaking the diffraction limit first proposed in 1873 by Ernst Abbe. The implications of...
New Approaches to Traditional Fluorescence Illumination Fluorescence microscopy presents an array of illumination challenges. Key among these is matching the spectrum of the light source to the fluorophore in the sample, to the bulb alignment and...
State of the economy 2010 There’s a prodigious pachyderm in the parlor, but nobody is able to agree on just how big it is or whether it is about to rampage through the house. The beast, of course, is the Patient...
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Lasers in biology and medicine When Theodore H. Maiman demonstrated the first ruby laser in May 1960, he surely could not have imagined all the possible future applications of laser technology. No one could have – lasers are so ubiquitous today, especially in the biosciences. They can trap and hold cells, induce fluorescence, treat skin conditions and even be used as scalpels. At BioPhotonics, we have always been firmly...
BioScan
Lighting up elusive cells To help improve the effectiveness of cancer surgery, scientists have investigated a more accurate way to differentiate tumor from normal tissue during surgery. In a line of studies, working primarily...
Folding proteins in a cell When it comes to protein folding, cells have a few tricks up their sleeve, report researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Using laser-based techniques, they have shown for...
Researcher takes glaucoma detection personally A new test is being developed that could revolutionize the diagnosis of glaucoma by detecting the disease years earlier than is currently possible. And for Chenxu Yu, an assistant professor at Iowa...
Building a better protein killer Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have reported a light-activated “warhead” molecule that, when tethered to protein-binding small molecules, greatly increases their ability to...
Shedding light on wound healing A little light may go a long way toward healing a wound, investigators reported at the recent annual meeting of the American Association for Dental Research. They found that a single small dose of...
Infrared scanner discerns mole from melanoma Oncologists could benefit from a new noninvasive infrared scanning system that determines whether pigmented skin growths are benign moles or melanoma, a lethal form of cancer. According to its...
RapidScan
Study probes the point-of-care testing market The field of point-of-care diagnostics has garnered a great deal of interest in recent years as advances in microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip techniques and optical detection methods – and miniaturization of the associated technologies – have made it ever more possible to bring diagnostic testing to the patient. Practitioners have seen that, with the array of portable and handheld...
Olympus America Inc. Olympus America Inc. of Center Valley, Pa., has signed a nonexclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Omnyx LLC, a joint venture of GE Healthcare and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center....
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. of Hemel Hempstead, UK, has announced that it will provide the Scottish Metabolomics Facility (ScotMet), located at the University of Glasgow, with technology to advance...
Andor Technology plc Andor Technology plc of Belfast, UK, a scientific imaging, spectroscopy solutions and microscopy systems provider, has appointed Microlat SLR of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as its distributor in...
Iris International Inc. In Chatsworth, Calif., the sample processing division of Iris International Inc., a manufacturer of automated in vitro diagnostic systems, has begun shipment of its new 12-place cytocentrifuge, the...
Leica Microsystems GmbH Precision optical systems provider Leica Microsystems GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany, has acquired Genetix Ltd. of New Milton, UK, a provider of solutions for imaging and image analysis. The transaction...
Jenoptik Following the announcement in March of a large traffic safety order, Jenoptik has received another major order to deliver lasers for medical use to a US-based client. The $16 million order covers a...
The Society for Biomolecular Sciences The Society for Biomolecular Sciences and the Association for Laboratory Automation are awaiting membership approval of a merger that would unite their organizations. The new group, which would be...
Pivotal Scientific Ltd. Pivotal Scientific Ltd. of Stonesfield, UK, a biotech consulting service for the life sciences and biotechnology sectors, has announced the launch of its Life Science Distribution identification...
Telemis sa Specializing in picture archiving communications system (PACS) solutions, Telemis sa of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, has signed an agreement with Maidis International, a Hospital Information System...
ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. of Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase the Sortimat Group of Stuttgart, Germany, a manufacturer of specialized assembly...
Postscripts
A bug in the x-ray system proves informative From its ancestral beginnings, it seems, the cockroach has been built to survive. Fossils of Archimylacris eggintoni, a time-lost relative of the modern pest, are common enough and found all around the world. Finding intact specimens, however, is not easy, and so there are a number of mysteries surrounding the insect. Using a partially intact specimen stored at the Natural History Museum in...
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UV Laser The Genesis CX355-250 laser from Coherent Inc. delivers true-CW, ultraviolet, solid-state performance, producing more than 250 mW of TEM00 output. It uses proprietary optically pumped semiconductor laser technology, providing a combination of <0.5% noise and high output power, which enables OEM instruments to achieve good signal-to-noise characteristics. The output beam has an M2 value of...
Coherent Inc.
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CCD Camera Mightex Systems’ USB 2.0 CCD cameras with built-in frame buffers are now available for machine vision, microscopy and medical imaging applications. The cameras have external trigger-in,...
Mightex Systems
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Translation Stages Edmund Optics has introduced its TechSpec single-axis translation stages featuring a crossed-roller guide system that provides higher accuracy, rigidity and load capacity. The precision stages offer...
Edmund Optics
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Amino Acid Analyzer Biochrom Ltd. has released the Biochrom 30+ series of amino acid analyzers to identify and quantify free amino acids, as well as the amino acid composition of proteins and peptides. Based on ion...
Biochrom Ltd.
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Live-Cell Fluorescence Imaging Olympus Europa Holding GmbH has introduced its cell^FRAP system for fluorescence recovery after photo-bleaching (FRAP), fluorescence loss in photobleaching, pattern bleaching to simulate fluorescent...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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Light Engine Spectra, a light engine launched by Lumencor Inc., provides seven discrete solid-state outputs spanning the visible spectrum from 380 to 680 nm, making it a true arc lamp replacement. For use by...
Lumencor Inc.
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Label-Free Instrumentation ForteBio Inc. has introduced the Octet RED384 for protein, peptide, small-molecule and fragment screening, and the Octet QK384 for protein and antibody assays. The instruments enable 384-well...
Pall ForteBio LLC
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Quantum Efficiency Measurement In partnership with Photal Otsuka Electronics, Labsphere has released the QE-1000 quantum efficiency measurement system. Using the companies’ patented HalfMoon integrating system, the device...
Labsphere Inc.
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Imaging System UVP LLC has announced an upgrade to its PhotoDoc-It imaging system for visualizing gel images. Users now can observe fluorescent gels in the system via the view-port window, which is mounted into the...
Analytik Jena US LLC
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Miniature Objective The ultrasmall and lightweight micro-objective from Rainbow Optics Co. is suitable for scanning images and focusing or condensing applications in biotech and fluorescence spectroscopy. The optical...
Rainbow Optics Co.
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Scanning Probe Microscope The Multimode 8 scanning probe microscope launched by Veeco Instruments Inc. uses two proprietary and patent-pending technologies, ScanAsyst and PeakForce QNM. The former has an automated imaging...
Veeco Instruments Inc.
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Multispectral Lasers Vixar has released a line of multiwavelength lasers packaged in small-form-factor housing for sensing, spectroscopy and medical sensing applications. The lasers include three emitters packaged in an...
Vixar Inc.
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Digital Microscope The KH-7700 digital microscope from Hirox-USA Inc. is an all-in-one unit designed for live observation, recording and measurement. An original algorithm allows it to tile quickly in real time,...
Hirox-USA Inc.
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Bar-Code Scanner Jadak LLC’s flexpoint HS-1M bar-code scanner is suitable for use in health care applications. The handheld instrument includes a safety mechanism that provides feedback to a medical...
JADAK
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Linear Translation Stages PI (Physik Instrumente) LP has released the M-692 series low-profile, ultrasonic linear translation stages. Suitable for high-speed positioning tasks with limited space, the closed-loop, linear...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Raman Analyzers Ocean Optics is offering new options for handheld, laboratory and educational Raman applications, and turnkey and application-ready kits are available for Raman laser analysis of aqueous solutions,...
Ocean Optics
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Thermoelectric Cooling Units AMS Technologies AG’s SD-330 and SD-250 compact thermoelectric cooling units are suitable for laser diode modules in medical and industrial applications with footprints between 50 x 100 and 124...
AMS Technologies AG
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Scientific CMOS Camera Hamamatsu Corp.’s ORCA-Flash2.8, a high-sensitivity digital camera based on the FL-280 scientific CMOS image sensor, is designed for low-light imaging at high frame rates. The FL-280 features...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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Multidiscussion System Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc. has launched a multidiscussion system for Axio Scope and Axio Imager light microscopes. Its 23-mm field of view provides an overview of the large specimen section and...
Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC
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UVA Spot-Curing System Dymax Corp.’s BlueWave LED Prime UVA high-intensity spot-curing system has no bulbs to change, requires no warm-up, and it provides cool cures and constant intensity for thousands of hours. It...
Dymax, Headquarters
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Self-Heating Sensor Chips For thermal resistance measuring applications, State of the Art (SOTA) Inc. is offering a line of microwave self-heating sensor chips that use platinum on alumina and oxidized silicon. The...
State of The Art Inc.
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Scientific Imaging Software Princeton Instruments has released LightField, a 64-bit data acquisition software platform for use in spectroscopy and scientific imaging. It controls the company’s cameras and spectrometers...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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InGaAs SWIR Cameras Sensors Unlimited Inc., part of Goodrich ISR Systems, has introduced two cameras with enhancements that expand the dynamic range of short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) imagery. The InGaAs SWIR SU320KTX...
Sensors Unlimited Inc.
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