skimming Biophotonics International

I have just received my September print copy of Biophotonics International, a monthly magazine that would collect "photonic solution for Biotechnology and Medecine". I usually skim it in order to find some news about my well-beloved reporter genes.

• So, at page 14 I learn about opto-acoustic small-animal imaging devices and I wonder if there will be a "photoacustic" genetic probe in the near future.
• At page 19 I read that by 2013 the winner DNA diagnostic technology (in terms of $ millions market) would be the stale and rusty PCR and probably not some DNA microarrays or Lab-on-a-Chip Diagnostics. This lead me to remember a strange PCR-reporter application that I found very promising.
• At page 24 I promise myself once again to try to understand what is really optical coherence tomography (OCT) and check its relevancy for reportergenomics. Does any OCT-wise wish to giving me a primer submitting a post?
• At page 33 finally a found mentioned a reporter gene: the yellow fluorescent protein used for two-photon imaging and validated with some patch clamp (not really a news for us isn'it?)
• What I really like it is usually put in the last two pages: the Post Script. In this column, the best photonics pictures recapitulate a strange application of photonics. This month it's featured an Actin Coral: a mix of GFP + quantum dots approach by Diane Lidke that unravels dynamic labyrinths of actin at the cell membrane.

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