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Optical Tweezers Can Move, Melt, and Scatter Enigmatic Lipid Rafts

For the first time, light beams have been used by researchers to control lipid rafts in artificial cell membranes.

30 Jan 2019

New Optical Microscope System Helps Manipulate Cell Networks

Stimulation and imaging-based functional optical microscopy, or SIFOM for short, is a novel optical microscope system that can activate numerous cells at the same time through a holographic technique method, and post the stimulation, can track cell activity using three-dimensional (3D) measurements based on fluorescence holography.

29 Jan 2019

New, Low-Cost Technique Uses Ultraviolet Light to Control Particle Motion and Assembly within Liquids

Chemical sensors, drug delivery, and fluid pumps could now be improved with an innovative, simple, and low-cost technique that utilizes ultraviolet light to regulate the motion and assembly of particles inside liquids.

23 Jan 2019

Photoactivatable Flp Recombinase Enables the Control of Specific Gene Expressions in Living Animals

A research team from KAIST has come up with a noninvasive light-sensitive photoactivatable recombinase that can be used for in vivo genetic manipulation.

23 Jan 2019

Optical Control to Show Component Counter with Automatic Loading/Unloading at APEX

Optical Control Americas, is pleased to announce plans to exhibit at the 2019 IPC APEX EXPO, scheduled to take place Jan. 29-31, 2019 at the San Diego Convention Center in CA.

4 Jan 2019

Researchers Develop New Implantable Device that Uses Light Signals to Treat Bladder Problems

A group of engineers and neuroscientists has created a small, implantable device that could possibly eliminate the need for electronic stimulators or medication in patients suffering from bladder problems.

3 Jan 2019

New Optogenetic Approach Shows Promise for Treating Muscle Tremor and Restoring Limb Movement

MIT researchers have demonstrated for the first time that leg nerves activated by light could provide a new way to restore mobility.

27 Dec 2018

New Method Throws Light on Cells Communication in Human Disease

Researchers at the University of York have formulated a new method that makes use of light to learn how cells communicate in human disease.

12 Dec 2018

Commonly Used Imaging Technique Could Work with Particle Beam Cancer Treatment

For the first time, researchers from the Institute of Radiooncology–OncoRay at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have integrated magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, with a proton beam and thus demonstrated that technically, this oft-used imaging technique can certainly work with particle beam cancer therapies.

30 Nov 2018

New Method to Turn Standard Diode Laser into Single-Frequency Lasers

Russian physicists have developed a technique for significantly narrowing the emission spectrum of a standard diode laser, like that in a laser pointer.

5 Nov 2018