News tagged with biophotonics

Biophotonics

The term biophotonics denotes a combination of biology and photonics, with photonics being the science and technology of generation, manipulation, and detection of photons, quantum units of light. Photonics is related to electronics in that it is believed that photons will play a similar central role in future information technology as electrons do today.

Biophotonics has therefore become the established general term for all techniques that deal with the interaction between biological items and photons. This refers to emission, detection, absorption, reflection, modification, and creation of radiation from biomolecular, cells, tissues, organisms and biomaterials. Areas of application are life science, medicine, agriculture, and environmental science.

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In the brain, 'ORMOSIL' nanoparticles hold promise as a potential vehicle for drug delivery

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the images of fruit flies, clusters of neurons are all lit up, forming a brightly glowing network of highways within the brain.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Built-in 'self-destruct timer' causes ultimate death of messenger RNA in cells

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered the first known mechanism by which cells control the survival of messenger RNA (mRNA) -- arguably biology's most important molecule. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New device for rapid, mobile detection of brain injury

When accidents that involve traumatic brain injuries occur, a speedy diagnosis followed by the proper treatment can mean the difference between life and death. A research team, led by Jason D. Riley in the Section on Analytical ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancer drug linked to quantum dots increases drug uptake, reduces inflammation

Researchers at the University at Buffalo have developed a novel technology using quantum dots that is expected to have major implications for research and treatment of tuberculosis, as well as other inflammatory ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tiny gold probes give scientists a sense of how disease develops

Tiny chemical sensors implanted into patients could help diagnose disease and track its progress, following a development by scientists.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticles Detect and Purge Metastases in Lymph Nodes

Colonoscopy represents one of the great weapons against cancer. In one step, a physician can find precancerous lesions in the colon and then cut them out, an on-the-spot intervention that prevents cancer from developing. ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists identify gene in breast cancer pathway

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered how a gene crucial in triggering the spread of breast cancer is turned on and off. The findings could help predict whether breast tumors ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New test may predict spread of breast cancer (w/Video)

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have previously shown that the co-mingling of three cell types can predict whether localized breast cancer will spread throughout the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

To Fight Drug Addiction, Researchers Target the Brain with Nanoparticles

(PhysOrg.com) -- A precise, new nanotechnology treatment for drug addiction may be on the horizon as the result of research conducted at the University at Buffalo.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fluorescent proteins illuminating biomedical research

Remarkable new tools that spotlight individual cellular molecules are transforming biomedical research. Scientists at the Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have ...

Biology /

created Jan 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0