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Lab-on-a-chip to Measure Glucose in a Single Drop of Sweat

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | May 4, 2016 at 2:01 am , by synadmn

Highly sensitive and rapid detection of blood glucose is a diagnostic necessity in medicine. For instance, lack of insulin and too much blood sugar are two main causes of diabetes, both of which can be detected by measuring blood glucose....

The role of Virtual Reality and Technology in the future of Museums

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | May 2, 2016 at 2:51 am , by synadmn

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Museums are usually considered purveyors of the past, but in Alex Benay’s eyes, they might be better off as tech pioneers. “I’m not a traditionalist,” said Benay, president and CEO of the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation. “The concept...

Optogenetics Shows Promise in Treatment of Chronic Pain

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | April 29, 2016 at 12:14 am , by synadmn

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Optogenetics may someday provide doctors with a noninvasive, highly focused way to treat chronic pain. By making the cells responsible for pain transmission sensitive to light, the technique may be able to target, desensitize and reduce bioelectric activity in these...

3D Laser Printing Yields High Quality Micro-Optics

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | April 27, 2016 at 1:53 am , by synadmn

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Researchers have demonstrated 3D printing of micron-scale optics with unprecedented performance and reproducibility. Their approach can be used to create almost any type of integrated optical element on a micron or smaller scale, which could help miniaturize instruments and devices...

Cellular Biosensing using Optical Spectroscopy

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | April 25, 2016 at 3:45 am , by synadmn

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Techniques such as optical nanoscopy and spectroscopy have expanded our capability to probe biological cells at the nanoscale. These techniques provide the opportunity to learn about disease mechanisms at the cellular level, and therefore to improve disease detection and diagnosis....

Flexible Sheet Cameras

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | April 21, 2016 at 11:05 pm , by synadmn

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Shree Nayar, Daniel Sims and Yonghao Yue of Colombia University, NY, USA, will present what they describe as a novel flexible lens array design for a sheet camera next month at the International Conference on Computational Photography at Northwestern University,...

Shining Light on Brain Tumors

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | April 20, 2016 at 12:35 am , by synadmn

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When operating on cancer, surgeons want to remove tumors and not healthy tissue. This is especially important and challenging when dealing with brain tumors, which are often spread out and mixed in with the healthy tissue. Now, researchers have shown...

Multispecies Imaging and Diffusion studies using Super-resolution Microscopy

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | April 18, 2016 at 12:16 am , by synadmn

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Cell membranes play an active role in many biological processes and are complex, highly heterogeneous media. They contain a variety of molecular species and structural elements that may interact with each other, leading to complex lateral diffusion behavior. Insights into...

Adaptive Optics Microscopy for Fine Imaging of Live Plant Cells

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | April 15, 2016 at 6:07 am , by synadmn

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Live imaging using optical microscopes enables observation of live cells, tissues, and organisms, and is vital for biological research. The discovery of fluorescent proteins and the development of fluorescent probes has allowed us to monitor the dynamics of molecules of...

Using Moldex3D In Optics Industry

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | April 13, 2016 at 4:50 am , by synadmn

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Today’s optics industry is not only faced with shorter time-to-market pressure, but also with more challenging requirements on product qualities: dimensional stability and birefringence issue. Since more and more optics manufacturers have chosen plastics as preferred alternative, the capability of...