Laser-activated gene therapy nanodevices developed by Harvard University spin-off Cellino Biotech came first place in the 2017 SPIE Startup Challenge, held at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco at the start of the month
Nine new products providing valuable new capabilities in detecting disease, assessing water or food quality, and enabling advanced precision manufacturing have been named winners of the 2017 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation
The winner of Ocean Optics’ 2017 Young Investigator Award has been announced at SPIE BIOS/Photonics West this week in San Francisco
On 31 January, leaders of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, wrote a letter to United States President Donald Trump addressing the executive order banning travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries. Although currently suspended, the ban resulted in several scientists - including conference speakers - not being able to attend Photonics West
The US BRAIN initiative is likely to continue to receive funding under the new Trump administration, Edmund Talley from the NIH told a neurotechnologies plenary session at SPIE Photonics West
The semi-finalists of the 2017 StartUp Challenge have been announced. The chosen photonics technologies range from those addressing global health needs such as clean water, food safety, prenatal care, and cancer detection, to wearables, connected cars, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality
Keely Portway looks at the latest advances in diamond turning, including new properties and functions for optics
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Joerg Volpp and Adrien da Silva, at the Luleå University of Technology, investigate beam shaping possibilities for high-power processing, co-authored by Alexander Laskin, from Adloptica
Carlos Lee, Epic’s director general, talks to Maria Chiara Ubaldi, co-founder and chief executive of Milan-based CareGlance
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Gemma Church details Universal Quantum’s work building a million-qubit quantum computer and what’s needed from optics and lasers
Daniel Holder is a research associate for laser material processing at the University of Stuttgart's IFSW.
Daniel Holder, of the IFSW at the University of Stuttgart, shares how new USP laser technologies could facilitate the rapid micromachining of silicon wafers
