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Personalized Approach to Diagnosing Individual Vision Issues

Scientists describe a new imaging system that cancels chromatic optical aberrations present in the eye of certain people, thereby enabling a more accurate evaluation of vision and eye health.

5 Aug 2019

Miniature Laser Crucial for Development of New Medical Sensors

In a big step toward creating portable scanners that can quickly measure molecules in pharmaceuticals or categorize tissue in patients’ skin, scientists have developed an imaging system that uses lasers adequately small and efficient to be placed on a microchip.

25 Jul 2019

X-Ray Crystallography Reveals 3D Structure of Biological Macromolecules

A review on serial femtosecond crystallography has been published by scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).

22 Jul 2019

New Technique Uses Ultrasound to Noninvasively Take Optical Images

Thanks to a new breakthrough, endoscopes may no longer have to be inserted into the body—for example, under the skin or down the throat—to reach the brain, stomach, or any other organs for inspection.

18 Jul 2019

New Device Enables Low-Cost and Clinically Accurate Eye Scans

A portable and low-cost optical coherence tomography, or OCT, scanner has been developed by biomedical engineers at Duke University. The tool has great potential to bring vision-saving technology to underserved areas, both across the United States and abroad.

1 Jul 2019

Microscopic Glass Blowing Method Used to Manufacture Miniature Optical Lenses

Since Roman times, the making of glass objects involved inserting air into a hot glass to form a bubble. In a new research, scientists use these same glass blowing concepts on a microscopic scale to create specialized tiny cone-shaped lenses called axicons.

26 Jun 2019