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BioPhotonics Monthly – Lasers Keep Crows Out Of The Corn (12/28/2016)

BioPhotonics Monthly – Lasers Keep Crows Out Of The Corn
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,
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
         
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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Lasers Keep Crows Out Of The Corn
Lasers Keep Crows Out Of The Corn
From mid-July through October, just as New England sweet corn crops ripen, flocks of blackbirds, starlings, grackles and crows swarm and strip the fields, inflicting up to $800 in lost product per acre. And deterrent methods were not ideal. That is why the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management asked Rebecca Brown, a professor of plant sciences at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, R.I., to study the effectiveness of a laser-based alternative at small farms.
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Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy — Going Beyond the Diffraction Limit
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy — Going Beyond the Diffraction Limit
The combination of short measurement times along with free position or scanning of the observation spot makes fluorescence correlation spectroscopy an excellent tool for investigating diffusion heterogeneity over time and space.
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Ultralow-Light CMOS Bio-Optical Sensor Enables Low-Cost, Portable Molecular Testing
Ultralow-Light CMOS Bio-Optical Sensor Enables Low-Cost, Portable Molecular Testing
The miniaturization of molecular tests enabled by CMOS biosensors and microfluidics could have positive impacts on global efforts against infectious diseases and cancer.
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OCT-A Detects Early-Stage Glaucoma
OCT-A Detects Early-Stage Glaucoma
Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) was used at the earliest stages of glaucoma to identify the characteristic patterns of different forms of the disease. OCT-A, a noninvasive technique that employs en face reconstruction of OCT combined with motion contrast processing to reveal perfused retinal vasculature, could enable doctors to diagnose glaucoma cases earlier than ever before and potentially slow down the progression of the disease.
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NIH Awards $1.4M Grant to Support Optogenetics Research
A $1.4 million, three-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been awarded to Dr. Ryohei Yasuda, scientific director at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) and collaborator Dr. Wenbiao Gan, professor at the NYU Langone Medical Center.
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Multichannel Optical Biosensor May Detect Cancer
An eight channel smartphone spectrometer has been developed that can detect human interleukin-6 (IL-6), a known biomarker for lung, prostate, liver, breast and epithelial cancers. Unlike current smartphone spectrometers, which are used to monitor or measure one sample at a time, the multichannel smartphone spectrometer (MSS) can optically analyze several samples simultaneously, adding to its potential value as a high-throughput device.
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