• Mike May

    Contributing Editor, BioOptics World

    Mike May writes about instrumentation design and application for BioOptics World. He earned his Ph.D. in neurobiology and behavior from Cornell University and is a member of Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society. He has written two books and scores of articles in the field of biomedicine.

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    Mike May
    Nov. 4, 2015
    A successful career contributed to keeping OpticalRayTracer—an optical design software program—free.
    (Image courtesy of Zemax)
    FIGURE 1. With Zemax's OpticStudio, an engineer can design an optics system, and the software simulates the behavior of the system and prepares output for manufacturing.
    Mike May
    May 5, 2015
    Designing and simulating optical systems for life sciences applications is increasingly easy, thanks to a number of software options.
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    Mike May
    April 10, 2015
    New ways of imaging individual proteins and lipids will ultimately change science and medicine.