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System could lower the cost of making metalenses and radiation absorbers.

As part of SPIE Photonics West 2023, which will take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, the BiOS Expo will run the weekend of Jan. 28-29. The exhibition will include dozens of companies showcasing new photonic system components and the latest adaptations for optical technologies in medicine and the life sciences. BiOS Hot Topics sessions will cover image-guided autonomous robotic surgery, the latest illumination source to be utilized in optical coherence tomography, and several other innovations.


An exhibitor at the 2022 SPIE BiOS Expo discusses the components used in his company’s optical systems. Courtesy of SPIE.
Sergio Fantini of Tufts University and Paola Taroni of Politecnico di Milano will chair the BiOS...

The founding Editor of Lab on a Chip and pioneer of the µTAS field, Professor Andreas Manz, has announced his retirement. In celebration of all his works and achievements, we have collated a video from his friends and colleagues across the lab on a chip community.  Watch the video ⬇️   We have created a […]

Most people are familiar with standard qualitative cameras and bright high-contrast images, thanks to the prevalence of increasingly powerful smartphone and digital cameras in the marketplace. Scientific-grade cameras, however, are designed to be quantitative, which means the technology can reliably determine photon intensities and detect low signals across large pixel arrays with the smallest degree of error and fewest artifacts, otherwise known as noise.

These capabilities have become increasingly relevant as scientific cameras have been put to use in more and more sophisticated situations, ranging from whole-organism light-sheet and super resolution microscopy to flow cytometry and voltage imaging of live neuronal signaling. These...

New ink formulation enables two-photon laser printing to fabricate dynamic, complex yet tiny structures.

How animals survive in the wild and defend themselves from natural predators is one of the most fascinating and essential mechanisms that researchers can study. Because animals cannot rely on the same mental strategies that humans can to extract themselves from dangerous situations, the animals often need to take advantage of innate physical capabilities. Photonics, in conjunction with other techniques, can help to uncover these complexities of animals’ physical structure and the functioning that enables their built-in defenses.

To unlock the mystery behind these innate safeguards, Ahmet Karabulut, a pre-doctoral researcher in the lab of Matt Gibson at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, examined electric-looking (thanks...

Streamlined dual-wavelength excitation system can deliver accurate depth information about tissues.

Medical research has a long, unfortunate track record of excluding ethnic and racial minority groups from clinical trials, a phenomenon that introduces remarkable uncertainty to the outcomes of taking medications or receiving laser-based medical treatments in these populations. Similarly, chronic medical conditions and adverse reactions to treatment that disproportionately affect minority groups, such as people of color, have historically garnered less investigative attention than those that affect majority groups. This has led to increased morbidity and mortality in minority groups.

The U.S. Census Bureau projects that people with skin of color will constitute 50.3% of the U.S. population by 2045, up from 39.7% in 2019. As this...

A research team in Germany prototypes a fast, “assembly line”-type approach for building multiphoton entangled states—a key resource for some next-gen quantum technologies.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Jean-Christophe Baret as an Associate Editor for Lab on a Chip! Jean-Christophe Baret University of Bordeaux , France JC Baret is Professor at the University of Bordeaux and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He obtained his PhD from the University of Twente (NL) in 2005 and joined […]