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World’s First Integrated Optical Biosensor for Disease Diagnosis

Biomagnetics Diagnostics, a medical device company that develops diagnostic systems for detection of hepatitis, HIV, cholera, malaria and tuberculosis, has received an integrated optical biosensor for disease diagnosis from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

5 May 2011

Romeo and Juliette Laser Hair Removal Acquires Candela’s GentleLASE PRO

Romeo and Juliette Laser Hair Removal, a Center for Excellence and training facility, has added Candela’s GentleLASE PRO High Speed Hair Removal System to its facility.

4 May 2011

Endoscopic Fiber Optic Shape Tracker Technology Can Reduce Pain during Colonoscopy

Tufts University's School of Engineering researchers have developed an endoscopic fiber optic shape tracker (EFOST) technology to reduce pain during colonoscopy.

4 May 2011

NIST Researchers Look to Use Medical Imaging to Quantitatively Validate the Efficacy of Cancer Treatments

The idea of probing the body's interior with radiation stretches back to experiments with X rays in the 1800s, but more than a century later, images taken with radiological scans still are not considered reliable enough to, for example, serve as the sole indicator of the efficacy of a cancer treatment. Lisa Karam, a biochemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and a few dozen of her colleagues across North America have set out to change that.

From NIST 13 Apr 2011

Palomar Unveils Icon Laser and Optimized Light System

Palomar Medical Technologies, a company dealing in research and development of light-and laser-based systems for aesthetic treatments, has released the Palomar Icon Laser and Optimized Light System.

5 Apr 2011

Carl Zeiss Meditec’s MEL 80 Excimer Laser Receives FDA Approval

Carl Zeiss Meditec, a leading global medical technology supplier, has received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) premarket approval for its MEL 80 Excimer Laser for treatment of hyperopia. The FDA had previously approved the laser for treatment of astigmatism and myopia.

31 Mar 2011

BIOLASE Receives U.S. Patent to Apply Laser Technologies for Vision Correction

Manufacturer and distributor of dental laser products, BIOLASE Technology has received a new patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that covers the use of its laser technologies for vision correction.

7 Mar 2011

Innovative Light Technology Reduces Radiation Side Effects in Cancer Patients

Quantum Devices, in collaboration with NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program, has used space technology for innovative medical applications.

7 Mar 2011

Photon Machines Licenses DSU’s Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy-Tag Technology

Delaware State University has licensed its new Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy-Tag Method (LIB-Tag), developed by its optics researchers, to Photon Machines, a specialist in developing sophisticated laser technology-based instruments. Meanwhile, the university is trying to get a patent for this groundbreaking technology.

28 Feb 2011

Scientists Use Adaptive Optics to Improve Live Brain Imaging

Eric Betzig, a scientist from Janelia Farm Research Campus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, in collaboration with Na Ji, a postdoctoral scientist, has enhanced live brain imaging by integrating two-photon fluorescence microscopy with adaptive optics. The technique can aid researchers to view the mouse brain more clearly.

28 Feb 2011