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Scanning Surface Veins With Laser Can Detect Cancer Cells

Technology that can detect tumour cells by scanning surface veins with a laser, eliminating the need for drawing blood, has been developed by Purdue University researchers.

7 Oct 2007

High Power Vertical Diode Laser Stacks

DILAS, the diode laser company, announces its high power vertical diode laser stack arrays. These devices are available in wavelength ranging from 630nm to 1900nm with output power up to 100W CW per bar.

7 Oct 2007

Respironics Announced Acquisition of Light Therapy Systems Manufacturer

Respironics, Inc. today announced that it has acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of Apollo Light Systems, Inc., a 20-year-old, privately held company and a leading manufacturer of light therapy systems for melatonin suppression and circadian rhythm sleep disorders.

5 Oct 2007

Programs Aimed to Improve OCT Imaging Techniques Could Revolutionize Diagnosis of Cancer

Imagine Optic, a French developer of wavefront sensors and optical measurement equipment, is to lead a consortium committed to finding new applications for adaptive optics in bioimaging. The MICADO (Microscopy improved with Adaptive Optics) consortium is a 3-year project bringing together France's leading neuroscience and cellular imaging experts.

5 Oct 2007

Bayer VEGF Trap-Eye Injection Helped Fight Wet AMD

Bayer AG said the VEGF Trap-Eye injection it is developing with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc helped fight wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), one of the main causes of blindness in adults, in a phase II study.

4 Oct 2007

Highly Efficient QCL Could Provide Compact and Portable Source of Mid-Infrared Radiation

A highly efficient quantum cascade laser (QCL) that operates continuous wave (CW) at room temperature could provide a compact, portable and cost-efficient source of mid-infrared radiation, say researchers in the US. Their QCL emits at 4.5 microns, has a wall plug efficiency of over 9.3% and a CW output power of 675mW. Wall plug efficiencies greater than 18% are also reported for devices at a temperature of 150K, with CW output powers of more than 1W.

4 Oct 2007

Firing Femtosecond Laser at Bacteria can Reduce Number of Infectious Viruses

Bacterial viruses can be made inactivate by a low-power visible femtosecond pulse, opening up new strategies for controlling micro-organisms.

4 Oct 2007

Hospital in Minneapolis Unveil its Most Expensive Operating Room

It's like a scene from a James Bond movie. In a room with gleaming steel walls, double doors slide open to reveal a doughnut-shaped machine large enough to engulf a person. People start backing away. The machine advances smoothly on ceiling tracks until it starts to swallow the top half of the young woman lying prone on the operating table.

4 Oct 2007

BSGI Can Reliably Detect Sub-Centimeter Lesions

Study results recently published in the Journal of Academic Radiology indicate that Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) provides higher sensitivity for the detection of ductal carcinoma In Situ (DCIS) than mammography or MRI and can reliably detect small, sub-centimeter lesions. The study, performed by Dr. Rachel Brem and colleagues at The George Washington University Medical Center, evaluated the technology on women with mammographically suspicious microcalicifications and other high risk factors.

4 Oct 2007

Molex Completed Acquistion of Fiber Optics Company

Molex Incorporated, a global electronic components company, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Phoenix, Arizona-based Polymicro Technologies, LLC. This acquisition is not financially material to the results of Molex and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

3 Oct 2007