October 14th 2024
A recent study used Raman spectroscopy to monitor cell culture processes.
Childhood Obesity Serum Samples Analyzed Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
April 9th 2024A group of scientists led by Zozan Guleken of the Gaziantep University of Science and Technology in Gaziantep, Turkey looked into the blood serum composition of childhood obesity (CO) tissues using Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy.
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.