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Fat: It's an infrared issue
Date: Oct 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
A near-infrared fluorescence imaging probe that binds to brown adipose vasculature and emits skin-penetrating fluorescence that can be picked up from the outside by a highly sensitive camera can be used to distinguish between "good" and "bad" adipose (fat) tissue.
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Journal Highlight: Optimization of lipid production for algal biodiesel in nitrogen stressed cells of Dunaliella salina using FTIR analysis
Date: Sep 30, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
A study of the rates of growth and lipid accumulation in Dunaliella salina showed that the trade-off between lipid content, growth rate and cell density needs to be considered for optimisation of lipid productivity for biodiesel.
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Journal Highlight: Simultaneously probing two ultrafast condensed-phase molecular symmetry breaking events by two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy
Date: Sep 2, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
Direct evidence is presented for two types of solvent-mediated symmetry-breaking events that coexist on the picosecond timescale in a highly symmetric anion in a condensed phase, using 2D IR spectroscopy.
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Pale blue dot: Poring over IR data
Date: Sep 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
In the wake of the NASA Cassini mission turning its cameras towards Earth instead of its usually target the planet Saturn, its rings and moons, astronomers are now analyzing an abundance of infrared and ultraviolet data from the images.
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Journal Highlight: Refining the interpretation of near-infrared band shapes in a polyynediyl molecular wire
Date: Aug 5, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
The near-IR spectrum of a ruthenium-diyne complex, which serves as a model for the linear carbon allotrope carbyne, has been reexamined to show that the presence of rotamers is a crucial variable that may influence the appearance of the intervalence charge transfer band and the underlying electronic structure.
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NIR signatures: Heart to heart
Date: Aug 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
New imaging technology based on near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been used by researchers at Spectrum Health's Frederik Meijer Heart & Vascular Institute to investigate patients in treatment following a heart attack.
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Journal Highlight: Use of near-infrared spectroscopy to identify trends in regional cerebral oxygen saturation in horses
Date: Jul 2, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
Near-infrared spectroscopy was used to identify trends in regional cerebral oxygen saturation in horses and establish a correlation between rSO2 and venous oxygen tensions.
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Satisfying your curiosity: The bigger picture
Date: Jul 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
Images recorded by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and sent back to Earth have been composited into what is the equivalent of a 1000 megapixel photograph of the surface of the Red Planet.
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Journal Highlight: Mid-infrared (IR) – A hot topic: The potential for using mid-IR light for non-invasive early detection of skin cancer in vivo
Date: Jun 3, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
The remarkable progress made towards mid-IR spectral in vitro mapping of tissue and cancer detection is reviewed and the status quo of chalcogenide glass mid-IR fibre optics and photonics for remote mid-IR sensing in general, and in vivo cancer detection in particular, is assessed.
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Total emissions: Adding up all the light
Date: Jun 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
How much light has been emitted by all the galaxies across the universe since the Big Bang? It is a fundamental question, poignant given that almost every photon ever emitted whether in the ultraviolet to far infrared wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum are still wending their way across the cosmos to this day with relatively few stopped in their tracks by matter.
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