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X-ray Guidance Device Reduces Radiation Exposure for Liver Cancer Patients

Johns Hopkins researchers report that their test of an interventional X-ray guidance device approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2013 has the potential to reduce the radiation exposure of patients undergoing intra-arterial therapy (IAT) for liver cancer.

27 Nov 2014

Laser Spine Institute Opens New Facility in Cleveland

Laser Spine Institute, the leader in minimally invasive spine surgery, opened the doors today to its new facility in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The Cleveland region contains more than one million people with neck and back pain, according to the National Institutes of Health, The Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases in the United States. The new center will address this need by providing greater access to minimally invasive spine care procedures throughout the surrounding region.

18 Nov 2014

RetroSense Licenses Worldwide Rights to Massachusetts General Hospital’s Optogenetics Intellectual Property

RetroSense Therapeutics, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company, today announced the signing of a license agreement for exclusive, worldwide rights to Massachusetts General Hospital’s patent application entitled "Method for Augmenting Vision in Persons Suffering from Photoreceptor Cell Degeneration".

18 Nov 2014

New Fluorescence Imaging Technique Accurately Identifies Receptors for Targeted Cancer Therapies

Dartmouth researchers have developed a fluorescence imaging technique that can more accurately identify receptors for targeted cancer therapies without a tissue biopsy. They report on their findings in "Quantitative in vivo immunohistochemistry of epidermal growth factor receptor using a receptor concentration imaging approach," which was recently published in Cancer Research.

17 Nov 2014

New Software Automatically Outlines Bones in Radiograph Images

Research into disorders such as arthritis is to be helped by new software developed at the University of Manchester which automatically outlines bones – saving thousands of hours of manual work.

17 Nov 2014

Photonic Advances Help Explore Structure and Function of Neural Circuits

A University of Texas at Arlington physics team is using their expertise in the field of optics and photonics to advance new methods in areas such as mapping the neural circuitry of the brain and guiding neurons to potentially repair damage in the body.

12 Nov 2014

Trail Underway to Assess New Laser Technology for Benign Prostate Surgery

A £1.2 million trial to evaluate the use of new laser technology for benign prostate surgery – one of the most common operations performed on the NHS - is underway in Bristol.

10 Nov 2014

New Automated Procedure for Generating Human iPSCs with Laser Enabled Analysis and Processing System

A new study by scientists at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, a nonprofit research institution and one of the largest induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) generators in the world, in collaboration with Intrexon Corporation a leader in synthetic biology, describes an automated, efficient procedure for generating human iPSCs with the Laser Enabled Analysis and Processing (LEAP®) system.

7 Nov 2014

Handheld Device Combines Ultrasound and Photoacoustics

A new handheld probe developed by a team of university and industry researchers in the Netherlands and France could give doctors powerful new imaging capabilities right in the palms of their hands. The imaging system, which is described in a paper published in The Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal Optics Express, shrinks a technology that once filled a whole lab bench down to a computer screen and a small probe about the size of a stapler.

6 Nov 2014

Two-Lens Combination Helps Army Veteran with Vision Issues Caused by Arthritis

Jeff Henson has been riding bikes for years. In 2012, he rode a bike coast to coast across the United States. Before that, the Army veteran did a long bike ride in France, and several in the American Northwest, always on a tandem bike and always from the back seat. He was not allowed to ride on the front seat, the steering seat.

31 Oct 2014