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Pioneering New Method Could Lead to Next Generation of Optical Tweezers

Researchers from the Universities of Glasgow, Bristol, and Exeter have developed a new technique of shifting microscopic objects using micro-robotics.

15 Mar 2019

New Optical Probe Could Improve Breast Cancer Surgery

The world’s first wearable probe, recently developed by researchers, improves the sense of touch by imaging and subsequently measuring the elasticity and stiffness of biological tissues.

13 Mar 2019

Scientists Use Pulsed Infrared Light Lasers to Activate Molecules Located Inside Neural Tissue

Deciding when, where, and how a drug is triggered, or having complete control of the activity of an individual molecule inside an organism are some of the goals anticipated to be reached with what is known as photoswitchable molecules—compounds that alter their properties in the presence of certain light waves.

4 Mar 2019

New Ultra-Small, Light-Activated Electrode Developed for Neural Stimulation

The emerging technology—neural stimulation—is believed to have beneficial therapeutic effects in Parkinson’s disease and other similar neurological disorders.

18 Feb 2019

Non-Invasive Imaging Technique Could Significantly Improve Cancer Treatments

Usually, it is quite simple to measure a fever: simple place a thermometer under the tongue of a patient and obtain a precise temperature reading within a period of 30 seconds.

14 Feb 2019

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