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    FIGURE 1. At SPIE Photonics West 2015, Hamamatsu's booth featured a double-track toy car racing game setup that involved two 'racer' participants, who would each wear an electronic headband incorporating a NIRS optical probe able to wirelessly send signals to one of the cars on the track.
    Can you control objects with your brain? Visitors to the Hamamatsu Photonics booth during SPIE Photonics West 2015 could—and did, with a little help from a system based on near...
    March 23, 2015
    Four scientists have been awarded the world's most valuable neuroscience prize, The Brain Prize, for the invention and development of two-photon microscopy.
    March 23, 2015
    Noninvasix's optoacoustic-based probe monitors cerebral venous oxygenation in the superior sagittal sinus of the emerging baby's skull, to accurately assess the amount of oxygen a baby is receiving.
    A novel solution based on photoacoustics for monitoring fetal heart rate monitors cerebral venous oxygenation in the superior sagittal sinus to quickly and directly detect the...
    March 23, 2015
    Lihong Wang of Washington University in St Louis (WUSTL) won the Britton Chance award at Photonics West 2015 for 'outstanding lifetime contributions' in the development and application of photoacoustics and photon transport modeling.
    The Biomedical Optics Symposium (BiOS) at SPIE Photonics West 2015 served both to acknowledge significant achievement and anticipate excitement yet to come.
    March 23, 2015
    Hair samples found at crime scenes can impact forensic investigations, but current sample analysis methods-DNA testing and microscopy comparisons-are time-intensive and often ...
    March 23, 2015
    (Image courtesy of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases [NIAMS])
    X-ray images, which are currently used to diagnose and monitor osteoarthritis, don't show cartilage loss, but fluorescence imaging allows direct viewing of disease progression—and thus promises earlier diagnosis and better treatment.
    A new study demonstrates that near-infrared fluorescence can be used to monitor changes in osteoarthritis.
    March 23, 2015
    The Google Glass app and illuminator allows analysis of chlorophyll concentration quickly, inexpensively, and without harming the plant.
    In the company of a handheld device, a new Google Glass app enables quick, noninvasive analysis of a plant's health.
    March 23, 2015
    The finished Low-Cost Motility Tracking System (LOCOMOTIS) adapted by Adam Lynch to study snail immune systems.
    Light microscopy systems for measuring cell motility can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. But a PhD student at Brunel University London's College of Health and Life Sciences...
    March 23, 2015
    (Image courtesy of the Looger Lab, HHMI/Janelia)
    In this larval zebrafish brain, neurons that were active while the fish was swimming freely were permanently marked in magenta.
    A new fluorescent protein lets scientists shine a light on an animal's brain to permanently mark neurons that are active at a particular time.
    March 23, 2015
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    If you're as old as I am (or almost), you might remember the postcards people sent out pre-Internet when they changed addresses.
    March 23, 2015