Quoting directly, “For the first time, researchers have developed a microscope capable of observing — and manipulating — neural activity [MORE]
Optical Magnetometre
Before this gets too exciting, realize that this piece refers to measuring the sciatic nerve impulse of a frog’s [MORE]
Neurons
Reconnecting severed nerves is no small matter. But electrical engineers at the University of Alberta have demonstrated a method for [MORE]
Laser
Regenerative medicine relies upon artificial scaffolds for producing cell growth into a desirable shape. That scaffold material has to have [MORE]
Optical Coherence Tomography
Using optical coherence tomography—aka “optical ultrasound,” a biomedical researcher at Texas A&M University was able to insert a [MORE]
Laser Speckle Rheology
Laser speckle rheology is a technique of beaming a laser through an organic material, revealing a light scattering [MORE]
Hologram
Scientists at Cambridge University have invented a new kind of diagnostic device. They embedded silver nanoparticles in hydrogel. When a [MORE]
Optical Fiber EPFL
While wireless transmission capability is moving toward 1 gigabyte/second, wired capability is leaping ahead even more dramatically. [MORE]
Purdue Biosensor
It works like a cream separator, but it relies on laser light and electric fields to separate particles [MORE]
Holographic Microscope
Using a web camera, a small solid state laser, an optical pinhole and free open source software, researchers [MORE]
Photoacoustic imaging involves using a nano-second pulsed laser to penetrate tissue to a depth of up to 3 inches and [MORE]
Nano Ear
Bacteria and viruses make faint sounds when they move—hard as that is to imagine. To detect these acoustic [MORE]
Tarilian Laser Technologies (Welwyn Garden City, Herts, UK) has developed a cuffless blood pressure monitor that can take a [MORE]
Dr.. Sean Hart
During World War II, Edwin Cohn developed the blood fractionation method that separated serum albumin, saving thousands of [MORE]