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Pressure Sensors in the Eye Could Prevent Glaucoma and Blindness

Sensors can monitor production processes, unmask tiny cracks in aircraft hulls, and determine the amount of laundry in a washing machine. In future, they will also be used in the human body and raise the alarm in the event of high pressure in the eye, bladder or brain.

4 Sep 2007

New Links Found between pH and Blindness

The scientific community is just starting to appreciate the importance of pH regulation in normal vision.

3 Sep 2007

Free Electrron Laser Laboratory in Danger with Cuts to Federal Funding

Federal funding for an experimental laser program at Duke and other major U.S. universities has been marked for elimination by the Department of Defense despite support from North Carolina members of Congress.

2 Sep 2007

World's First Live Cryotherapy and Laser Procedures Symposium

The first interactive symposium on minimally invasive techniques in urology to feature live cryotherapy and laser surgery takes place today in Paris, one day prior to the prestigious SIU (Société Internationale d’Urologie) Congress. This innovative educational symposium is sponsored by Galil Medical, in collaboration with the equipment donors Lisa Laser Products and Karl Storz.

2 Sep 2007

Additives Enhanced Laser Marking and Laser Welding of Clear Plastics

The marking and transmission welding of transparent plastics is an interesting subject which is of increasing importance for many plastic products.

29 Aug 2007

Agilent Implements Complex Monolithic Optics Development Program for OEM Clients

Technologies Inc. today announced its Complex Monolithic Optics (CMO) Development Program for OEM customers. The program offers customers the opportunity to incorporate the latest high-precision optics design technology into their optical system designs. CMOs are stand-alone optical assemblies that are created when multiple discrete optics are bonded together into a single, pre-aligned optical structure.

28 Aug 2007

Detecting Malaria Using Light

Canada and Spain's University of Murcia used a Macroscope, a patented technology developed by Biomedical Photometrics Inc., which enables imaging of much larger tissue samples at a very high resolution – in this case tissue infected with malaria. Using their new patented method and the Macroscope, the researchers measured tell-tale changes in the polarization of light reflecting off a sample of infected tissue.

26 Aug 2007

New Multiphoton Microscope Advances Knowledge of Congenital Degenerative Diseases

An innovative use of technology that shows promise in advancing knowledge of the causes of congenital degenerative diseases of the eye, such as retinitis pigmentosa, has been developed by SUNY Upstate Medical University researcher Peter D. Calvert, Ph.D.

22 Aug 2007

USPTO Grants Patent on Opsens Technology

Opsens Inc. has announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) has granted Opsens, patent no. 7,259,862 entitled Low-coherence
interferometry optical sensor using a single wedge polarization readout
interferometer.

21 Aug 2007

Scottish Universities to Collaborate on Imaging of the Brain

Research into conditions like strokes, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and cancer will be significantly advanced by a unique collaboration between six Scottish universities, launched today. SINAPSE (The S...

21 Aug 2007

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