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Bioscience

Bioimaging

The Research

Quantum Bioimaging

Ongoing
Our efforts in BBD are focused on using the quantum nature of light to facilitate enhanced and novel measurement technologies for biological samples. For example, so-called bright squeezed laser sources enable imaging and sensing with less noise than is classically possible. Additionally, entangled
microfluidic chip

Evaluating Measurement Quality of Microfluidic Cell-based Assays

Completed
Impact and Customers Our work establishes metrics for measurement quality and reproducibility for cell-based assays within microfluidic devices. Many novel microfluidic devices are being created that permit new measurements or enable new biological functions to be tested; however, characterizations

Cell-based Assay for Mechanistically-based Prediction of Cytoxicity

Completed
Ricin is a type 2 ribosome inactivating protein (RIP) belonging to the A-B family of toxins and is of particular interest because of its potential use as a biological weapon and the dearth of rapid and sensitive assays that could assist detection and decontamination. The ricin toxin inhibits protein