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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
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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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Power, Price and Portability
JAMES SCHLETT, EDITOR
Power is not everything. If it costs too much, too few may wield it. And if it restricts freedom, it will only be tolerated for so long. This is especially true in the years-old competition between lasers and LEDs. These photonics technologies have vied to be light sources in many applications, and brain research is emerging to be a major battleground for them.
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LEDs and Lasers Battle for Dominance in Brain Research
Small but generally less powerful, or plenty of power but costly; the fight between LEDs and lasers in optogenetics intensifies. Lighting up the brain to better understand, treat or even cure brain disorders has become an established field known as optogenetics. Today it is one of the most promising tools making contributions to the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative — part of a new federal focus aimed at producing a dynamic picture of the brain.
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A handheld device capable of capturing images of a retina with cellular resolution allows researchers to gather detailed structural information about the eyes of infants and toddlers for the first time.
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Concordia International Corp. said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Company's premarket approval application for its Photofrin 630 PDT (photodynamic therapy) Laser.
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Interchangeable Microscope Modules
Siskiyou Corp.
Siskiyou Corp. has announced a comprehensive set of interchangeable modules and accessories that enable users to customize the functionality of optical microscopes from all major manufacturers or build their own microscope.
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Ultra Precise Piezo-Z Axis Stage
Applied Scientific Instrumentation Inc.
Applied Scientific Instrumentation's Ultra Precise Piezo-Z Focusing stage has been specifically designed to provide a high resolution, and highly repeatable, means of controlling the X, Y, and Z position of the microscope stage.
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Lambda VF-1 EDGE™ Tunable Filter Changer
SUTTER INSTRUMENT
Introducing the Lambda VF-1 Edge™ tunable filter system from Sutter Instrument. To take advantage of the new VersaChrome Edge™ filters from Semrock, the Lambda VF-1 Edge system allows user selection of the band-width as well as the center wavelength.
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Coming in November/December...
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Features
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy; Ablative Facial Resurfacing (Lasers); CCDs in Medical Imaging; Multispectral Microscopy
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