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Optical imaging highlights metabolic interactions that make pancreatic tumor cells grow
Representative NAD(P)H fluorescence intensity images of pancreatic cancer cells cultured as 3D organoids (shown in magenta) and PSC non-cancer cells (shown in cyan) from cocultures obtained on days 1 through 4 (top). The corresponding optical redox ratio from the same images is also shown (bottom). Credit: Morgridge Institute for Research Pancreatic cancer is a rare,…
An optical chip improved by light
Credit: EPFL Technology is increasingly moving towards miniaturization and energy efficiency. This also applies to electronic chips. Light, and optics more broadly, are functional in making compact and portable chips. Researchers from the Photonic Systems Laboratory, headed by Professor Camille Brès, have successfully applied a novel principle for introducing second-order optical nonlinearity into silicon nitride…
Optical chip protects quantum technology from errors
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In today's digital infrastructure, the data-bits we use to send and process information can either be 0 or 1. Being able to correct possible errors that may occur in computations using these bits is a vital part of information processing and communication systems. But a quantum computer uses quantum bits, which…