Biotechnology & Medical News
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Rice Team Designs Lens-Free Fluorescent Microscope
3/5/2018
Lenses are no longer necessary for some microscopes, according to Rice University engineers developing FlatScope, a thin fluorescent microscope whose abilities promise to surpass those of old-school devices.
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Noninvasive Optical Sensors Provide Real-Time Brain Monitoring After Stroke
2/21/2018
Each year, nearly 800,000 people in the U.S. experience a stroke, and almost 90 percent of those are ischemic strokes in which a clot cuts off blood flow to part of the brain. To prevent further injury, blood flow to the brain must be restored as quickly as possible.
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Understanding Brain Functions Using Upconversion Nanoparticles
2/14/2018
Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have worked with an international research team to jointly develop a novel approach for deep brain stimulation.
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SPIE's AR/VR/MR All-Day Conference Delivers Immersive Experience
2/12/2018
After feasting on a full day of insight from some of the most prominent names in altered and virtual reality technologies, attendees were treated to a panel discussion that assembled pioneers in the space, asking them to muse on its past, present, and future.
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Seeing Is Believing: VR/AR Headset Demos At SPIE Photonics West 2018
2/6/2018
It’s safe to say that, whatever the expectations happened to be for last Monday’s altered reality/virtual reality headset demos at SPIE Photonics West, the event's reality surpassed them.
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Researchers Create Fiber Optic Sensors That Dissolve In The Body
2/5/2018
For the first time, researchers have fabricated sensing elements known as fiber Bragg gratings inside optical fibers designed to dissolve completely inside the body.
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Electro-Mechano-Optical NMR Detection
2/5/2018
An international research project led by Kazuyuki Takeda of Kyoto University and Koji Usami of the University of Tokyo has developed a new method of light detection for nuclear magnetic resonance -- NMR -- by up-converting NMR radio-frequency signals into optical signals.
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NUS Researchers Develop Wireless Light Switch For Targeted Cancer Therapy
1/30/2018
A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a way to wirelessly deliver light into deep regions of the body to activate light-sensitive drugs for photodynamic therapy (PDT).
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Injector Gun, Cryomodule Delivered For SLAC's X-Ray Laser Upgrade
1/25/2018
The injector gun and first cryomodule for Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II) — one of the most advanced superconducting laser projects in the world and the only one in the U.S. — have arrived at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California.
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TU Wien Develops New Semiconductor Processing Technology
1/22/2018
Extremely fine porous structures with tiny holes - resembling a kind of sponge at nano level - can be generated in semiconductors.