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Fighting Cancer With The Power Of Immunity

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | October 28, 2016 at 1:22 am , by synadmn

Harnessing the body’s own immune system to destroy tumors is a tantalizing prospect that has yet to realize its full potential. However, a new advance from MIT may bring this strategy, known as cancer immunotherapy, closer to becoming reality. In...

Fluorescent Holography: Upending The World Of Biological Imaging

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | October 26, 2016 at 1:29 am , by synadmn

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Optical microscopy experts at Colorado State University are once again pushing the envelope of biological imaging. Jeffrey Field, a research scientist in electrical engineering and director of CSU’s Microscope Imaging Network, has designed and built a fluorescence-detection microscope that combines...

Low-cost Biophotonic Device Detects Antibiotic Allergy In Less Than 30 Minutes

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | October 24, 2016 at 12:06 am , by synadmn

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Those who are hypersensitive to common antibiotics like penicillin and amoxicillin could soon find help with a low-cost, biophotonic allergy detector that will be six times faster and 100 times more efficient than current technology, providing more targeted treatment for...

New Optoacoustic Platform Reveals Deep Neural Activity

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | October 21, 2016 at 1:30 am , by synadmn

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Optical imaging of large distributed neural populations is a key goal in revealing the principles underlying brain activity, with recent advances in single and multi-photon light-sheet microscopy and related techniques playing a significant role. Read more...

Nanostructured Plasmonic Metal Targets for Raman-based Explosives Detection

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | October 18, 2016 at 11:34 pm , by synadmn

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Detection of explosives (eg. in the field, baggage, or transit systems) has become an intense field of research over the last 15 years. Several physical (such as ion mobility spectrometry, mass spectrometry, and active neutron interrogation) and chemical (including calorimetry,...

Temperature Difference Propels Droplets

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | October 16, 2016 at 11:51 pm , by synadmn

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Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new way of driving fluid droplets across surfaces in a precisely controlled way. The method could open up new possibilities for highly adaptable microfluidic devices, as well as for de-icing technologies, self-cleaning...

A Step Toward Practical Electron Optics

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | October 14, 2016 at 12:55 am , by synadmn

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A team of scientists has coaxed electrons into displaying a behavior—negative refraction at a boundary—that’s previously been reserved for light passing through exotic metamaterials. The researchers believe that the finding could open up new prospects in so-called electron optics, in...

Holographic Imaging Technique Diagnoses Malaria Automatically, Accurately

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | October 12, 2016 at 1:10 am , by synadmn

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A quantitative phase spectroscopy (QPS) system that incorporates digital holography has been used to spot malaria-infected cells from a simple, untouched blood sample without any help from a human. The technique employs machine learning algorithms and has been shown accurate...

Solving the Problem of Glare

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | October 10, 2016 at 1:45 am , by synadmn

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If you have ever turned on your car’s high beams while driving through fog, you’ve seen glare in action. As the extra light reflects off the fog, it becomes even more difficult to see what lies ahead. In compelling new...

Toward Visible-Light-Based Imaging For Medical Devices, Autonomous Vehicles

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | October 7, 2016 at 2:35 am , by synadmn

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MIT researchers have developed a technique for recovering visual information from light that has scattered because of interactions with the environment — such as passing through human tissue. The technique could lead to medical-imaging systems that use visible light, which...