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Market Discontinuities—Ice in Hot Water
Recently I've had the chance to hear a thought-provoking lecture by Paul Yock, Professor of Medicine and Director of Biodesign at Stanford University, at the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Bio2Device Group. Dr. Yock spoke about the global evolution of medical device innovation, focusing in particular on the example…
If You Can Make Your Car Tires Screech, You Can Build a Laser
While this is not exactly the typical required experience you find in high-tech job descriptions, the point is that to learn how to make tires screech, you’ve already had to master a delicate balance between energy storage and energy dissipation. And that’s the key principle on which a special kind*…
Bet You Didn’t Know You Could
I think I should start by explaining what a streak camera is. Then I’ll explain why you should care. At least I’ll explain why I care! A streak camera is a superbly sophisticated instrument used in ultrafast physics and spectroscopy experiments that allows you to record incredibly short events (on…
Kinetic River Corp. Launches Danube Fluorescence Lifetime Flow Cytometer
Time-resolved flow cytometry enables cell biologists to study proteins and cellular microenvironment San Francisco, Calif., USA, February 3, 2013 – Kinetic River Corp., a leader in flow cytometry instrumentation design and product development, officially launched the Danube today at Photonics West’s BiOS Expo in San Francisco, Calif. Under development since early 2012, the Danube goes…
Time to Get on the Personalized Medicine Bandwagon—Or Is It?
Personalized medicine seems all the buzz these days. People talk about things like whole-genome analysis to determine individual propensity towards specific disease states, or the development of drugs tailored to be maximally effective, and minimally side-effective, for certain narrowly defined patient sub-populations. Major scientific advances along these and other lines…
Why Your Heart is a Lot Like Alaska
I can already hear the howls—accusing the writer of callous insensitivity. Let me hasten to say that what follows has absolutely nothing to do with the heart as the metaphorical seat of emotions; and also nothing to do with Alaska as a very, very cold place (whether literally or figuratively;…
Why It’s Hard to Drive at Night After It Rains
Welcome to Giacomo’s Blog @ Kinetic River! In this blog space I plan to cover a wide range of topics, spanning optics, biomedicine, technology, and other topics I think you might find of interest. The aim is to seek to entertain, enlighten, and stimulate thoughts. Your feedback is welcome, as…