A world class event showcasing the biological applications of light is once again illuminating The Moscone Center in San Francisco. Part of the huge Photonics West Expo, BiOs is an annual event. Here under one roof we can see many of the latest developments in technologies such as biophotonics,spectroscopy, microscopy, optogenetics, laser surgery, and much more. We shot a video at last year's bios, which will give a basic idea of some of the technology shown there:
What can we learn about the latest photonic and optical tools for biological applications?
From the 2016 SPIE Photonics West BIOS expo, we asked a few of the many exhibitors to shed light on some of these tools and the science behind them.
I would like to thank the following participants in this 2/13/16 video. My apologies for the low quality, I shot it with a point and shoot still camera. More information can be found by following the links to their websites.
1. Mary Harper Ph.D. talks about advanced microscopy products.
2. Xiaoshi Zhang, Ph.D shows us the eXtreme Ultraviolet Ultrafast Source (XUUS4) from KMLABS. More about the science and technology making nanoscale imaging down to the atomic level may be found here:
4. Dipl. -Phys. Uwe Ortmann from the Berlin based PicoQuant talks to us about confocal microscopy which enables us to image single molecules and proteins. The website includes links to workshops and courses: http://www.picoquant.com/
5. Bob Kressin, President of KS Technologies shows how his company designed a spectroscopy (determine the chemical composition of a substance and match it to a database of materials) device using DLP (think video projector) technology. https://kstechnologies.com/
6. Scott Rudder, Vice President of Marketing and Sales at IPS Innovative Photonic Solutions talks to us about Ramen spectroscopy which enables us to examine molecular structure (you could for example identify the active pharmaceutical ingredients and polymorphic forms of a drug) I'm sorry Scott but my camera ran out of card so you were not able to finish telling us about the Integrated Ramen Probe but there is more about it here:
