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BioPhotonics Monthly — Chip-on-Tip Endoscopy, Mobile Spectroscopy, Prism Award Finalists, and more. (2/24/2021)

BioPhotonics Monthly — Chip-on-Tip Endoscopy, Mobile Spectroscopy, Prism Award Finalists, and more.
Monthly newsletter focusing on how light-based technologies are being used in the life sciences.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Monthly newsletter focusing on how light-based technologies are being used in the life sciences. Includes news, features and product developments in lasers, imaging, optics, spectroscopy, microscopy, lighting and more. Manage your Photonics Media membership at Photonics.com/subscribe.

 
Mobile Spectroscopy Enables Noninvasive Blood Hemoglobin Assessments
Mobile Spectroscopy Enables Noninvasive Blood Hemoglobin Assessments
Several technologies are currently being developed to noninvasively measure blood hemoglobin levels and anemia. Researchers at Purdue University recently introduced a data-driven, less hardware-dependent method to incorporate optical reflectance spectroscopy into mobile health technologies. The technique allows for noninvasively quantifying blood hemoglobin content from the inner eyelid, using an unmodified smartphone.
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Eye Care, Laser Technology, and Imaging Modules Among 2021 Prism Award Finalists
Eye Care, Laser Technology, and Imaging Modules Among 2021 Prism Award Finalists
Six biophotonics technologies that enhance retinal imaging, disease diagnosis, and surgical precision are among the 30 finalists SPIE has selected for this year’s Prism Awards. Winners in 10 categories will be announced as part of the SPIE Photonics West 2021 Digital Forum, to be held online March 6-11.
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Chip-on-Tip Technology Expands Endoscopy’s Use in Localized Procedures
Chip-on-Tip Technology Expands Endoscopy’s Use in Localized Procedures
Many patients would prefer to undergo surgery in which tools enter their bodies through a natural opening or small incision, over an operation involving the opening of their chests or abdominal cavities. Improvements in medical imaging over the past few decades have allowed for many procedures that use the former method. Endoscopy is the technique that has enabled doctors and their patients to make this choice.
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Applied Scientific Instrumentation Inc. - Light Sheet for Cleared Tissue Light Sheet for Cleared Tissue

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A flexible and easy-to-use SPIM configuration optimized to image large cleared samples. The sample is mounted horizontally on an XYZ stage. Two multi-immersion objective lenses are held in an upright “V” geometry for light sheet illumination and detection.

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Lumencor Inc. - NEW CELESTA quattro Light Engine NEW CELESTA quattro Light Engine

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Lumencor’s CELESTA quattro Light Engine is a turnkey illuminator designed to support imaging applications with bright, stable, long-lived lasers. Four solid-state outputs, ~1000 mW/laser, from a common fiber are available in off-the-shelf and OEM configurations.

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Phoseon Technology Inc. - Keylight™ OEM Microscopy Light Source Keylight™ OEM Microscopy Light Source

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KeyLight™ illumination sources for fluorescence microscopy are the perfect solution to integrate into your equipment. Phoseon's proprietary LED solutions offer intense, broad-spectrum wavelengths for various colors from UV through visible into the infrared.

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XENON Corp. - Think BIG; Go Small with XENON's X-1100 Benchtop Research System Think BIG; Go Small with XENON's X-1100 Benchtop Research System

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Photonics Media - The 2021 Photonics Buyers’ Guide The 2021 Photonics Buyers’ Guide

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.: In Case You Missed It

 
Microscopy Method Seven Times More Sensitive for Live Cell Viewing
Microscopy Method Seven Times More Sensitive for Live Cell Viewing
Researchers from the University of Tokyo have developed a way to increase the extent and types of information they are able to ascertain about the insides of living cells by using existing microscopy techniques. Their method does not require staining or fluorescent dyes.

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Optogenetics Approach Delivers Precision Necessary to Study Bacteria in the Gut
Researchers in Texas have succeeded in effectively turning gut bacteria inside the intestines of worms “on” and “off” by applying different colors of light, via an optogenetic control mechanism. The work helped the research team led by Baylor College of Medicine’s Meng Wang and Rice University’s Jeffrey Tabor show that colanic acid, a metabolite, is produced by intestinal bacteria, rather than digested in the stomach.

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Tiny Pressure Sensor Measures Minute Changes Within the Body
Researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University developed a miniaturized, highly sensitive optical fiber sensor that could be used to measure small pressure changes within the body — changes as minute as 2 kilopascals. The sensor is made from a polymer called Zeonex, and its basis for operation is a fiber Bragg grating — periodic microstructures that can be inscribed onto a fiber.

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Product and applications experts from Teledyne Photometrics are joined by leading imaging scientists to discuss how the latest developments in scientific CMOS (sCMOS) technology are opening up new possibilities in imaging. Presenters Dan Croucher, Ph.D. and Rachit Mohindra discuss how they are using the Kinetix to solve challenges from the high-speed collection of large, 3D volumes in live cells to the lowest light single molecule and super-resolution imaging. Presented by Teledyne Photometrics.
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