BioPhotonics

Buckyball Formation Observed A Sandia National Laboratories researcher looking for flaws in nanotube durability was unexpectedly able to experimentally confirm a hypothesis about how buckyballs form. “We have now the first direct...	3-D Photonic Crystals Sought Photonic crystals, which contain properties that give butterfly wings their shimmering colors, are being used to revolutionize the future of telecommunications by making systems smaller, faster and mo...
Precision Optics to Cut Jobs Precision Optics Corp. Inc. announced it will reduce its work force as a result of operating losses it expects to continue through 2008. Last week the Gardner-based manufacturer of advanced optical in...	Olympus to Buy Gyrus Group Olympus Corp. of Japan announced that it will acquire Gyrus Group PLC, a UK-based manufacturer of devices that enable less invasive surgeries, for $1.9 billion in cash. Gyrus Group is based in Reading...
Particles Send Drugs Remotely Remotely controlled nanoparticles that, when pulsed with an electromagnetic field, release drugs to attack tumors have been devised at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in research that could ...	Raydiance, Rutgers Collaborate Raydiance Inc., an ultrashort-pulse (USP) laser startup founded by Internet entrepreneur and former AOL chief executive Barry Schuler, announced today it will collaborate with Rutgers University and t...
Sun's Twin Discovered The sun’s chemical composition may not be unique, as some previously thought. Peruvian astronomers Jorge Melendez of the Australian National University and Ivan Ramirez of the University of Texas at A...	Science Network On Track Two of the nation’s leading research networks -- the US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and Internet2 -- announced today that they have completed five interconnected rings, ...
CTS to Cut 103 Jobs CTS Corp. announced this week it intends eliminate 103 jobs by the end of the year as part of a plan to realign some of its manufacturing operations. CTS is based in Elkhart and manufactures electroni...	Force to Be Reckoned With Advances such as miniscule submarine-type machines that destroy cancer cells could be one result of work to harness the Casimir force, which was accurately measured just a decade ago. A pioneering tea...
Hot Topics, Bright Minds at PW The hottest topics, trends and developments in biomedical optics, lasers, LEDs, fiber optic components and devices, nanotechnology, microfabrication and more will be presented during Photonics West 20...	UK Examines PET Utility Positron emission tomography, or PET scans, can help clinicians diagnose and treat some cancers, but it is not clear yet whether the imaging technology helps people with cancer live longer and healthi...
LHC Detector Installed One of the most fragile detectors for the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment has been installed in its final position. LHCb is one of four large experiments at CERN1’s Large Hadron Collide...	Hot Embossing Rivals Molding Hot embossing, a recently optimized technology in which glass is heated to high temperatures and molded on both sides, has been found to be up to 10 times faster and 70 percent cheaper than precision ...
Mini Oven Heats Fluids for LoC By embedding a thin-film microwave transmission line between a glass substrate and a polymer block, scientists have created what could be the world's smallest microwave oven. The tiny mechanism can he...	MKS Buys Yield Dynamics MKS Instruments Inc. announced today that it has acquired privately held Yield Dynamics, a provider of yield management technology based in Sunnyvale, Calif. According to an MKS quarterly report filed...
QD Advancements on Agenda The Quantum Dots 2007 conference will bring together manufacturers, materials and equipment suppliers and end users to discuss recent market developments and technology advancements critical for the a...	CyOptics Acquires PLC Maker CyOptics Inc., a developer of indium phosphide (InP) optical chip and component technologies, today announced it has expanded its photonic integrated circuits (PICs) technology platform by acquiring p...
UNC Symposium Attracts 100 More than 100 members of the optoelectronics community attended the sixth annual symposium of the Charlotte Research Institute (CRI) Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, held last we...	STM Made 100 Times Faster A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has been developed that can image individual atoms on a surface at least 100 times faster than a traditional instrument. It may also allow researchers to precisel...
Award Funds STED Microscope A $1.1 million award from the National Science Foundation will enable the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA to acquire the first commercially available superresolution stimulated emission deple...	Boston Scientific Sells Units Medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific Corp. today announced it is selling its Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery businesses to the Getinge Group of Stockholm, Sweden, a provider of health ca...
'Smart' Optical Chip Proposed A new theory could lead to "smart" optical microchips that adapt to different wavelengths of light, potentially advancing telecommunications, spectroscopy and remote sensing.Drawn by the promise of su...	Neurons Glow in 'Brainbow' The circuitry of the brain is being imaged as never before thanks to a multicolor fluorescent protein labeling technique called "Brainbow." Brainbow allows researchers to tag neurons with roughly 90 ...
A Tiny Sensor for Tiny Hearts A sensor the size of a grain of rice could reduce the cost of noninvasive biomagnetic measurements such as fetal heart monitoring and may also have applications such as homeland security screening for...	Beam of Light Picks Up Cells A beam of light has been used for the first time to pick up, hold, and move around individual cells and other objects on the surface of a silicon microchip. The new technology could become an importan...
Intel Opens 'Fab 32' Production of a new generation of microprocessors for PCs, laptops, servers and other computing devices began this week inside Intel Corp.'s first high-volume 45-nm manufacturing factory.Called "Fab 3...	Big Biotech Names at BIO Bio-Europe 2007, to be held Nov. 12-14 in Hamburg, Germany, will present many of the most respected names in biotechnology to discuss key issues in the life sciences industry and the deals that drive ...
Corning: Q3 Profit up 41% Glass and optical fiber maker Corning Inc. today announced better-than-expected results for the third quarter of 2007, with profit increases of 41 percent over a year ago driven mostly by demand for L...	Fish Don't Need Sunglasses Goldfish have a natural advantage in sensing the proximity of their meals: Individual light-sensitive cells in their retinas are able to detect polarized light, acting much like Polaroid sunglasses. T...
QC Nanoantenna Demo'd The demonstration of a quantum cascade (QC) laser nanoantenna, a device capable of resolving the chemical composition of samples such as the interior of a cell with unprecedented detail, is being desc...	StockerYale Buys Spectrode StockerYale Inc., a Salem, N.H., maker of structured light lasers, LED modules and specialty optical fibers for OEMs, announced Thursday it has acquired Spectrode LLC, a developer of pulsed thulium-do...
Helium Demand Ballooning The worldwide shortage of helium is resulting in rising prices and tight supplies for party supply stores, but it won't deflate Macy's annual tradition of floating gigantic characters down Broadway in...	Wave Map Data Online Data from a massive project to map a distant region of the universe in multiple wavelengths -- from x-rays through ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and radio waves -- has been released to both scientis...
Boston Scientific to Cut Jobs Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. announced today it will eliminate about 2300 positions worldwide, or approximately 13 percent of an 18,000-person, "non-direct labor workforce baseline" as...