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A new projection-based additive manufacturing method uses blue and red lasers to quickly create high-resolution micrometer-sized objects.

Scientists and clinicians have long believed that visualizing structural changes in the nucleus of cancer cells would unlock vital clues about how the disease first forms. This information could provide the ability to track where and how cancer is progressing to plan its successful treatment. Traditional microscopy methods have fallen short in revealing these details because the microscope’s inherent resolution limit only allows the imaging of general structural changes, as opposed to resolving their point of origin. Finding fluorescent dyes that illuminate abnormalities, such as aggregated proteins, at the single-molecule level and effectively target their spatial distribution has also not been easy. Innovations in superresolution...

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.