With this method, doctors around the world can easily, rapidly and reliably detect malaria, Ebola or HIV to name only a few. Nothing could be simpler: a drop of blood is placed on a special carrier ...

To characterize which clinical features are associated with the occurrence of atypical birefringence patterns (ABP) occasionally seen with scanning laser polarimetry (SLP). Sixty-one subjects, ...

Stimuli-sensitive materials can respond to physical forces with structural phase transitions. This also applies to biopolymer-surfactant mixtures, a study by German and Chinese scientists now reports.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . MIAMI — A modified nerve fiber analyzer can give surgeons the ability to measure the corneal polarization axis ...

"This birefringence pattern is the only signal that we need to use for diagnostics and analysis," says Mezzenga. At the beginning of their research, the scientists tested their system with chemical ...

(Nanowerk News) Nothing could be simpler: a drop of blood is placed on a special carrier substance; after a wait of a few minutes, the slide is placed on a device that emits polarised light thanks to ...

This news release is available in German. Nothing could be simpler: a drop of blood is placed on a special carrier substance; after a wait of a few minutes, the slide is placed on a device that emits ...