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Low-Cost Robotic Device Enabling Digital Camera to Produce Gigapixel Shots

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center, have built a low-cost robotic device that enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel (billions of pixels) panoramas, called GigaPans.

27 Oct 2007

Artificial Cornea To Save Eyesight

Every year, in Germany alone, around 7000 people wait for a new cornea to save their eyesight. But donor corneas are in short supply. In an EU project, researchers have developed an artificial cornea which is to be clinically tested in early 2008.

26 Oct 2007

ApNano Materials Announces New Line of Nanotechnology-Based Non-Reflective Optically Black Coatings

ApNano Materials, Inc., a provider of nanotechnology-based products, today announced a new line of nanotechnology-based non-reflective, optically black coatings. The new coatings will be used, in the first phase, in solar energy systems and optical application such as high performance optics and lenses.

26 Oct 2007

Future of Eye Development

The University of Warwick research team led by Professor Nick Dale and Professor Elizabeth Jones from the University of Warwick’s Biological Sciences Department have published their work today, 25th October 2007, in Nature in a paper entitled Purine-mediated signaling triggers eye development.

25 Oct 2007

Lasers Are at the Cutting Edge of Surgery

From cosmetic to brain surgery, intense beams of coherent light are gradually replacing the steel scalpel for many procedures.

25 Oct 2007

Imagine Optic to Spearhead Consortium to Develop New Technology for Detecting and Treating Neurological Disorders

As part of its ongoing commitment to expand the applications of adaptive optics in bioimaging, Imagine Optic will spearhead the MICADO (MICroscopy improved with ADaptive Optics) consortium that will unite France’s leading experts in the fields of neuroscience and cellular imaging to develop new technology for detecting and treating neurological disorders.

25 Oct 2007

Stem Cells Can Be Used to Grow New Corneal Tissue

Doctors and scientists in Italy have shown how stem cells can be used to treat damaged eyes and, in combination with gene therapy, a rare and debilitating skin disease.

25 Oct 2007

Scientists Discovered a Simple and Inexpensive Way for Patients to Keep Track of Patient Vision Loss

Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have discovered a simple and inexpensive way for patients with retinal and other eye disease to keep track of changes in their vision loss. In a study published in this week's PLoS One (October 24, 2007) they demonstrate that a compelling visual illusion known as the induced twinkle after-effect (TAE) can accurately identify the location and breadth of actual blind spots in people with retinal disease.

24 Oct 2007

Breakthrough in Current Scientific Imaging with Active-Pixel Sensor Technology

A new class of pixel-based imaging devices being developed by a UK consortium is now being trialed in scientific imaging applications ranging from particle physics and space science to medicine and biology. Active-pixel sensor (APS) technology exploits mainstream CMOS technology to incorporate programmable transistors into each pixel of the image array.

24 Oct 2007

Nanophotonics Set to Benefit From Collaboration

Universities from the UK and Taiwan have joined forces in a project that they hope will combine the nanophotonics expertise of the UK with the industrial links of Taiwan.

24 Oct 2007