News tagged with biophotonics
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. ...
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Oct 30, 2009 |
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Research suggests cells communicate via biophotons
(Phys.org) -- Biologists have long been familiar with luminescence in organisms, where plants and animals produce visible light, but more intriguing perhaps is the newer field of study centered around biophotons, ...
May 23, 2012 |
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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. ...
Dec 22, 2011 |
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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 ...
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Jan 25, 2009 |
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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
Nov 01, 2010 |
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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.
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Jan 09, 2012 |
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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
Mar 28, 2010 |
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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
Mar 23, 2009 |
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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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