April 29th 2025
A recent study conducted by scientists in Brazil saw the development of a quick, non-invasive method to diagnose endometriosis.
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Identified Using Infrared Spectroscopy and Machine Learning
March 27th 2024Scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering, and the Shamoon College of Engineering recently created a system that combines Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy with machine learning algorithms to identify bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics.
University of Pennsylvania Graduate Researcher Wins SPIE Medical Imaging Student Paper Award
March 14th 2024A PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania has won the 2024 Physics of Medical Imaging Student Paper Award, which is given out annually by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), at the Medical Imaging Symposium in San Diego, California.
Inside the Laboratory: The Calhoun Laboratory at the University of Tennessee
March 5th 2024Tessa Calhoun, PhD, an associate professor of biochemistry & cellular and molecular biology and chemistry at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, discusses her group’s most recent work employing the optical technique, second harmonic scattering (SHS), to probe how living bacterial membranes uptake and transport small molecules, including antibiotics.
Raman Spectroscopy to Detect Traumatic Brain Injuries: An Interview with Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer
January 10th 2024This interview with Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer of the University of Birmingham highlights new research her team is working on that includes a Raman-based system for detecting early traumatic brain injuries.
Tobacco Stem Impurities Identified with New Hyperspectral Superpixel Technique
September 27th 2023To effectively classify tobacco stems and impurities, a group of scientists from Jiangsu, China used hyperspectral superpixels to separate classify compounds and avoid the influence of interference fringes.