Tustin, CA--Fueled in part by increased demand from the biomedical industry among others, LightWorks Optics will open a 14,000-square-foot expansion adjacent to its corporate headquarters.

Sydney, Australia--A thin-film surgical adhesive that uses a combination of laser technology and biomaterials enables surgeons to seal surgical wounds without stitches. It has strong potential for use in brain and nerve surgery because it can avoid the numerous disadvantages of invasive stitches/sutures, which fail to seal and can act as a source of infection.

The SFDA (State Food and Drug Administration) of China has approved the Alex TriVantage multi-wavelength, Q-switched laser system and the GentleMax multiple wavelength workstation from Candela for sale throughout the People's Republic of China, including Hong Kong.

BURLINGTON, MA--The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Lux1540 Fractional non-ablative laser handpiece for use in the treatment of striae (stretch marks).

San Diego, CA—A reliable identification of precancerous lesions is one the most important challenges in GI endoscopy because early detection and treatment are the most effective measures to prevent advanced cancer. In Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) patients the differentiation between pre-malignant and inflammatory lesions can be difficult. Until recently there was no way to quickly test cells to see if they were normal, pre-cancerous or cancerous.

Guided Therapeutics Inc. (GT; Norcross, GA) has received confirmation of additional funding from Konica Minolta Opto Inc. (KMOT) of Tokyo to co-develop new, non-invasive cancer detection products.

The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded its 510(k) clearance for Michelson Diagnostics’ (London, UK) VivoSight OCT scanning product. For clinical use, FDA 510(k) applies: “VivoSight is a Multi-Beam Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) system indicated for use in the two-dimensional, cross-sectional, real-time imaging of external tissues to the human body.”

A super resolution microscope system from Nikon Instruments incorporates Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) technology licensed from the University of California, San Francisco (USCF) Office of Technology Management. With the N-SIM microscopy system biologists and neuroscience researchers will be able to view microstructures and nanostructures of fixed and living cells (time resolution of 0.6 s/frame) with molecular-scale resolution.

In vivo optical molecular imaging (OMI) is poised to move into clinical use as one of the key tools in personalized medicine, complementing more established imaging tools such as CT and MRI.

Using nanomaterials researchers from Northeastern University’s Electronic Materials Research Institute have manufactured a superlens that enables objects as small as a few nanometers in size to be seen clearly through the lens.

Designed to replace the use of scalpels and electro-surge in the treatment of soft tissue, the Picasso Lite soft tissue dental laser from AMD Lasers  is priced at $2495 and offers 2.5 watts of power and three customizable presets.