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The use of digital pathology techniques without stains or reagents is gaining traction for use in clinical practice, particularly for "gray" diagnostic areas where tride-and-true physical stains and or chemicals may not provide high...
The New York Times (1/13, D3, Markoff) reports, "For the first time, researchers at an IBM laboratory have captured a three-dimensional image of" a "tobacco mosaic virus." The "technique used by the" scientists...
STANFORD, Calif., March 19, 2008 -- A digital camera is being developed with 12,616 microlenses -- each in effect a tiny camera -- that can take photos in a kind of super 3-D for potential use in facial recognition, biological imaging, and 3-D...
Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal. These tools may allow doctors to detect and diagnose cancer earlier and less invasively Studded with antibody...
from photonics.com - 2/13/2008 http://www.photonics.com//content/news/2008/February/13/90588.aspx PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 13, 2008 -- A new optical trick that counteracts the scattering of light through humans could one day make biological...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 12, 2008 -- An implantable thin-film system can deliver drugs to specific targets in the body by disintegrating when an electric field is applied. The film developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology serves as...
