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Dynamic Laparoscopic Graspers For Minimally Invasive Surgery
Dynamic Laparoscopic Graspers For Minimally Invasive Surgery
Developers at Briteseed, a biotechnology company in Illinois, devised a handheld prototype that they say will make it significantly easier for surgeons to locate blood vessels during minimally invasive ...
Non-Ablative Fractional Lasers Fighting Colorectal Cancer
Non-Ablative Fractional Lasers Fighting Colorectal Cancer
A group of South Korean researchers recently published research revealing a new and innovative way to treat colorectal cancer and precancerous tissues using non-ablative fractional lasers (NAFLs). This new ...
Confocal Microscope on Smartphones: Skin Disease Diagnosis
Confocal Microscope on Smartphones: Skin Disease Diagnosis
Researchers from around the world came together to develop a low-cost smartphone confocal microscope for imaging human skin in vivo. The team’s main concern: disease diagnosis in low- and middle-income ...
Ultrafast Fiber Lasers: A Novel Approach
Ultrafast Fiber Lasers: A Novel Approach
Researchers at Cornell, Colorado State, and Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories believe ultrafast fiber lasers could hold an abundance of untapped potential. The collaborative research team published a proposal ...
Clear Lenses as Efficient Ocular Protection against UV Exposure
Clear Lenses as Efficient Ocular Protection against UV Exposure
A joint team of researchers from the University of Tuebingen in Germany and Carl Zeiss Vision explore the efficiency of clear lenses as forms of ocular protection against UV light in a recently published ...
Large Area Metalens: Wafer-Thin Design with Huge Impact
Large Area Metalens: Wafer-Thin Design with Huge Impact
Engineers at Harvard University have published their proposal for a large area lens design that addresses the high-demand of the technological age. With a nod to Moore’s Law, they sought to unify two ...
Intravascular Imaging: Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Catheters for Clinical Use
Intravascular Imaging: Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Catheters for Clinical Use
A team of researchers from the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands optimized the use of intravascular imaging in the detection of coronary artery diseases via catheters. They ...
Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography (FFOCT): The Future of Corneal Disease Diagnosis
Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography (FFOCT): The Future of Corneal Disease Diagnosis
A new study presents a novel approach to imaging the human cornea. The research team at the Langevin Institute in Paris says their optical coherence tomography device is the first capable of full-field in ...
Smart Glass Prototype for Optimal Adaptability
Researchers at the University of Delaware have revealed an exciting opportunity for the market of energy efficient technologies. In a paper published in February’s issue of Optics Express, the team ...
New Optical Tweezers Technique Revamps Single Cell Experimentation
New Optical Tweezers Technique Revamps Single Cell Experimentation
Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK have developed a new design for optical tweezers using a single diode-coupled multicore fiber. The novel method promises a much more flexible ...