Biophotonics

Low-cost Spectroscopy Technique Measures Brain Blood Flow

May 6, 2018

UC Davis biomedical engineers have developed a new technique that could be used for measuring blood flow in the brains of patients with stroke or traumatic brain injury; light shined into the head is returned to a detector, and the signal [more...]

Leti and Cellmic LLC Join Forces to Accelerate Market Adoption of Lens-free Diagnostics

May 6, 2018

Figure DxCELL is operated by the built-in phone integrated into the reader and uses the camera on the phone to capture and process test data (Image credit: Cellmic ) Leti, a research institute at CEA Tech, and Cellmic LLC, a company [more...]

International MicroNanoConference, 12 & 13 December 2017 Call for Abstract

December 12, 2017

The international MicroNanoConference has an established track record in bringing together the value chain of the different micro and nano fields of endeavour. The active involvement of the industry, science and user community of [more...]

International MicroNano Conference 2017

December 12, 2017

Stanford Researchers use optical light to separate molecules from their doppelgangers

October 29, 2017

A handshake between light and molecules may soon lead to purer chemicals, thanks to the work of Jennifer Dionne, PhD, associate professor of materials science and engineering, and her lab. As described in a paper published this week [more...]

Fluorescence Microscopy on a Chip – No Lenses Required

September 25, 2017

A diagram of the on-chip fluorescence imaging platform showing how the ultra-thin glass bottom microfluidic chip sits on top of the contact CMOS fluorescence imager Fluorescence microscopy gives researchers incredible power to illuminate [more...]

Nanoscale Chip System Measures Light from a Single Bacterial Cell to Enable Portable Chemical Detection

September 17, 2017

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created a nanophotonic chip system using lasers and bacteria to observe fluorescence emitted from a single bacterial cell. To fix the bacteria in place and to route light toward [more...]

Engineers Turn a Laser Beam into a Stream of Liquid

September 4, 2017

Lasers are one of the iconic breakthroughs of 20th century science. They produce coherent photons in tight beams of specific energy. They can transmit data, detect molecules, and burn through metal. The photons they produce also have [more...]

Flow Cytometry Pushes the Envelope of Applications Possibilities

June 25, 2017

This technical review article was adopted from Laser Focus World and written by Giacomo Vacca is president and founder of Kinetic River, Mountain View, CA. The author covered application history of flow cytometry, hardware evolution, [more...]

Nanofiber Device Detects Forces and Sound Waves from Live Cells

June 14, 2017

A novel nano-sized optical fiber, about 100 times thinner than a human hair, is sensitive enough to detect forces down to 160 femtonewtons (fN) (about ten trillion times smaller than a newton) when placed in a solution containing live [more...]

Optofluidics Announces Name Change to Halo Labs

April 27, 2017

Optofluidics today announced that it’s changing its corporate name to Halo Labs. The move comes after the company changed focus to making analytical tools for biopharmaceutical quality control. “We are excited about this new [more...]

Microfluidics Could Open the Door to Graphene Opto-electronics

April 5, 2017

The aim is to exploit flakes of graphene and other 2D materials suspended in microfluidic structures which can be coupled to CMOS photonic circuits. The fluids in the micro-channels are liquid crystals, which can be controlled to [more...]

Turning Blood into a Laser Emitter for Drug Testing, Cancer Treatment

September 5, 2016

Blood as a laser emitter (image credit: University of Michigan) University of Michigan researchers have successfully demonstrated a new technique that combines laser light with an FDA-approved fluorescent dye to monitor cell structure [more...]

A Graphene Window to Better Microfluidics

September 5, 2016

Working with protein microcrystals can be an enormously challenging endeavor. Aside from their extremely small size, microcrystals can be delicate, difficult to handle, and susceptible to radiation damage from x-ray diffraction studies. [more...]

Microfluidics and Spectroscopic Imaging for Personalized Medicine in Ovarian Cancer

April 2, 2016

With certain cancers, such as ovarian cancers, a significant number of patients are non-responsive to the standard chemotherapy treatment. These patients, therefore, experience the negative side effects of chemotherapy without clinical [more...]

Alternative Lab-on-a-Chip Material

February 24, 2016

A close-up image of micro-scale pillars that were formed — or, photostructured — in the OSTE polymer using UV light. (Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed a new [more...]