Nano-Optics News

Nanobiotechnology: Imaging without labels

Nanobiotechnology: Imaging without labels

Researchers report an optical method to detect and image single proteins without using any labels.

Allison Doerr in Nature Methods 11, 990 (2014)

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analytica.com reports about "The shadow of a disease"

The shadow of a disease
Proteins such as tumour markers can be easily and sensitively detected by their scattered light...

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Vahid Sandoghdar wins poster prize at NFO-13

Congratulations! Vahid Sandoghdar wins poster prize at NFO-13, this year's international conference on near-field optics and nanophotonics in Salt Lake City, Utah. He presented our work on scanning-pipette electrostatic trap of nanoparticles. For more information click here.

 

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Nature Photonics on "Fluorescent-free detection"

Molecular sensing: Fluorescent-free detection (by Oliver Graydon)

Nature Commun. 5, 4495 (2014)

The optical detection of single proteins is possible without requiring fluorescent labelling, report scientists in Germany. Marek Piliarik and Vahid Sandoghdar from the Max Planck Institute for the…

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Marek Piliarik wins poster prize at Workshop "Biosensing"

Congratulations! Marek Piliarik’s work on Label-free sensing of proteins wins the best poster prize at the International workshop Taking Detection to the Limit: Biosensing with Optical Microcavities.

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