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.
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Please Don't Squeeze the Peaches - article and slideshow
JAMES SCHLETT, EDITOR
Despite all of mankind’s technological advances, consumer methods for testing fruit ripeness — visually scanning, squeezing and smelling — remain fairly primitive. In many ways, the difference between how our hunter-gatherer ancestors identified ripe fruit in the forest or on the savannah and how we do it in the grocery story is probably more a matter of art than technique.
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Low-Level Light Therapy Is Still Looking for — and Finding — Clinical Inroads
The field of low-level light therapy (LLLT) emerged soon after the invention of the ruby and helium-neon lasers in the early 1960s. Since then, the technique has progressed, proving effective for a number of therapeutic areas, including reducing inflammation, promoting wound healing, reducing pain and for improving skin conditions and local circulation. However, despite decades of supporting research and a large body of evidence, the scientific community is still reluctant to implement LLLTs for clinical use.
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Contribute to the Photonics Media 2016 Reader Poll
Photonics Media has opened its annual reader poll to garner input from our global audience for inclusion in the August 2016 issue of Photonics Spectra. Follow the link to answer three quick, fun questions, and your answers could be published this summer.
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The lab-on-a-chip approach is being applied to the development of glucose meters for the early diagnosis and prevention of diabetes. An optofluidic device has enabled detection of glucose in solution, requiring only a tiny droplet of sweat.
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A microscope about the size of a penny has been used to observe everyday activity of cells within the spinal cords of mice, revealing that astrocytes — cells in the nervous system that do not conduct electrical signals and were traditionally viewed as merely supportive — unexpectedly react to intense sensation.
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Beacons are the photonics industry's luminaries, guiding scientific, business and consumer communities to embrace optics and photonics technologies. In the upcoming August issue of Photonics Spectra, traditionally referred to as the "reader" issue, we are taking the opportunity to crowdsource deserving professionals who are enabling the success of the industry through their work in five categories.
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Lumencor's LIDA Light Engine
Lumencor Inc.
Lumencor’s LIDA light engine® works hand-in-hand with the latest monochrome cameras to generate RGB color transmitted light images with unprecedented sensitivity, spatial resolution, speed and color fidelity.
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Dual Inverted SPIM from ASI
Applied Scientific Instrumentation Inc.
Applied Scientific Instrumentation has developed a new form of light sheet microscopy with our collaborators in the scientific community. The diSPIM system from ASI is an extremely cell friendly system for imaging live specimens.
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Laurin Publishing Announces Poster Series
Photonics Media
Laurin Publishing Co., whose titles include Photonics Spectra and BioPhotonics magazines and the Photonics Buyers’ Guide, announces the availability of two posters featuring art that takes a lighthearted look at the early days of the photonics industry. The unique and original drawings of Diane M. Laurin appeared...
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New Optics Drawings Standards
Thu, Jun 30, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Dave Aikens, the leader of the project to adopt ISO 10110 as an American National Standard, will provide an introduction of OP1.0110, the American National Standard for optics drawings. He will discuss the format of the drawings, as well as an overview of the tolerance notations for things like glass parameters, surface wave front, imperfections and texture. He will also explain how OP1.0110 differs from ISO 10110 and provide insight into how both standards will change in the coming decade.
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Features
Two-Photon Microscopy; QDs for In Vivo Imaging; High-Throughput Optical Imaging; NIR Spectroscopy Cerebral Oximetry
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Microscopy Sourcebook: Focused features, news, products and directory
Photonics Media is currently seeking technical feature articles on a variety of topics for publication in our magazines
BioPhotonics. Please submit an informal 100-word abstract to Editor James Schlett at
[email protected] or use our online submission form www.photonics.com/submitfeature.aspx.
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