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Researchers Use Laser Technology to Examine Cancer Cells

Doctors need to know something about the traits of cancer from which a patient is suffering to be able to devise the best treatment for the patient. But one of the extreme challenges in treating cancer is that not all cancer cells are the same.

2 Apr 2019

$Miniature Optical Elements Could Soon Replace Traditional Refractive Lenses$

Miniature Optical Elements Could Soon Replace Traditional Refractive Lenses

A research team at Northwestern University has created tiny optical elements from metal nanoparticles and a polymer that soon might replace traditional refractive lenses to realize portable optoelectronic devices and imaging systems.

29 Mar 2019

optical control Participates in Successful KWA Open House

optical control Americas is pleased to announce its recent participation at another successful KWA (Kurt Whitlock Associates) three-day open house. As with all co-events with KWA, it was a huge success.

26 Mar 2019

optical control Participates in Successful KWA Open House

26 Mar 2019

A Revolutionary Imaging Tool Could Make Avoidable Blindness a Thing of the Past

According to a group of students at Imperial College London, a new, revolutionary imaging tool can help prevent avoidable blindness.

25 Mar 2019

Researchers Offer Open-Source Solution of 3D-Print System Developed for Optical Cardiography

An international team of researchers from the George Washington University, U.S., and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, has created an open-source solution for multiparametric optical mapping of the heart’s electrical activity.

22 Mar 2019

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