Dossier - 08/09/2022 Imaging methods in medical diagnostics Many different imaging methods are available these days and are used in almost all medical disciplines to visualise disease-related changes. Depending on the problem and the clinical picture, very different structural and functional parameters can be visually recorded for diagnosis and used for therapy.https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/dossier/imaging-methods-medical-diagnostics
Intelligent Diagnostics - 09/02/2022 AI for added value in digital melanoma diagnostics Intelligent Diagnostics is an interdisciplinary project that brings together the latest technologies and research institutes to better support doctors in diagnosing skin cancer through innovative imaging and artificial intelligence.https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/ai-added-value-digital-melanoma-diagnostics
Press release - 23/07/2020 Images from the inside of blood vessels Smallest 3D printed miniature endoscope in the world detects cholesterol plaques and thrombs inside human and mouse arteries.https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/press-release/3d-bilder-aus-dem-inneren-von-adern
Article - 14/08/2018 Simple and fast: new optical method for analysing living cells The junior researchers Dr. Daniel Geiger, Tobias Neckernuß and Jonas Pfeil from Ulm have developed an innovative method for non-contact real-time analysis of cells and other particles. The analysis involves low data rates and correspondingly little effort. This is what makes the method so attractive for medical applications.https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/simple-and-fast-new-optical-method-for-analysing-living-cells
Article - 12/04/2017 Imaging flow cytometry – introducing a new era of imaging High-resolution images or quantifiable results? Up until now, researchers usually had to choose. All this has now changed thanks to a single device known as an imaging flow cytometer that combines fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry. The new device gives new insights into complex biological phenomena in cells. It is available for research purposes at the Research Centre for Women’s Health at the University Hospital of Tübingen, which…https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/imaging-flow-cytometry-introducing-a-new-era-of-imaging
Press release - 31/01/2017 Background Suppression for Super-resolution Light Microscopy Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a new fluorescence microscopy method: STEDD (Stimulation Emission Double Depletion) nanoscopy produces images of highest resolution with suppressed background. The new method yields an enhanced image quality, which is advantageous when analyzing three-dimensional, densely arranged subcellular structures. STEDD, a further development of the STED method, is now presented in…https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/press-release/background-suppression-for-super-resolution-light-microscopy
Company profile - 05/07/2016 HS-Analysis GmbH – using digital histology to develop new drugs The idea of analysing tissue samples automatically sounds more of a pipe dream than anything else. However, it already happens. HS-Analysis GmbH's ability to interpret tissue samples automatically is driving new drug development a decisive step forward.https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/hs-analysis-gmbh-using-digital-histology-to-develop-new-drugs
Article - 06/06/2016 ZEISS Vision Science Lab: understanding vision Carl Zeiss AG and the University of Tübingen have been jointly running the ZEISS Vision Science Lab since 2013. This is a workgroup that is both fully integrated into research as well as delivering results for the development and improvement of products. The “Industry on Campus” professorship shows how different interests can turn out successfully for both parties involved. https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/zeiss-vision-science-lab-understanding-vision
Article - 16/12/2015 Small and handy – tiny LED lights can improve eye surgeons’ work A new lighting system for vitreoretinal surgery that uses small white light-emitting diode (LED) technology, promises to be safer for patients and more practical for surgeons. It will probably be three years before the idea is launched as a medical product. Prototypes need to be optimised, approved and then tested for safety and functionality at the University Eye Hospital in Frankfurt. https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/small-and-handy-tiny-led-lights-can-improve-eye-surgeons-work
Article - 26/10/2015 Ultrafast STED nanoscopy Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell and his team at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg have achieved yet another milestone in super-resolved optical microscopy. The team have developed an ultrafast STED (stimulation emission depletion) nanoscope that now makes it possible to study molecular processes and transport processes in living cells in millisecond time steps. https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/ultrafast-sted-nanoscopy
Article - 25/02/2013 How can light be used to control the behaviour of neurons? The control of the behaviour of individual neurons simply by switching light stimuli on and off sends neuroscientists into raptures as it reveals insights into as yet hidden and complicated processes in the brain. Thanks to optogenetics this particular science fiction became reality a few years ago. Working with researchers from the Bernstein Center at the University of Freiburg and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in…https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/how-can-light-be-used-to-control-the-behaviour-of-neurons
Press release - 22/05/2012 Microscope looks into cells of living fish Microscopes provide valuable insights in the structure and dynamics of cells, in particular when the latter remain in their natural environment. However, this is very difficult especially for higher organisms. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, and the American National Institutes of Health (NIH) have now developed a new method to visualize cell structures of an eighth of…https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/press-release/microscope-looks-into-cells-of-living-fish
Article - 25/10/2010 Angelika Rück visualises the dance of molecules Angelika Rück measures the luminescence time of molecules in order to find out whether proteins are speaking with each other. She hopes that she will soon be able to differentiate inflammation from tumours. Rück who is head of microscopy at the Ulm-based ILM has worked hard with her colleagues to make the Eselsberg-based Ulm University location one of southern Germanys leading life cell imaging centres.https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/angelika-rueck-visualises-the-dance-of-molecules
Dossier - 18/10/2010 New machines for the life sciences Hardware and software applications have become an integral part of the everyday life of life sciences researchers, developers and service providers. It is impossible to imagine life science applications without effective hardware and software applications – from computer-assisted drug screening to the automatic production of biosensors for rapid, mobile, purse-size bacterial test devices. Trends such as automation and miniaturisation lead to ever…https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/dossier/new-machines-for-the-life-sciences
Press release - 28/08/2010 Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs to grant ILM additional financial support The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs has granted the Institute of Laser Technology in Medicine and Metrology (ILM) in Ulm additional financial support totalling 582,000 euros from the German government’s “Future Investment Programme”. The funding is to be used to renew and expand the institute’s equipment in 2010.https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/press-release/baden-wuerttemberg-ministry-of-economic-affairs-to-grant-ilm-additional-financial-support
Article - 15/04/2010 Rainer Wittig: oxygen biology opens up new paths “When one talks about light in the field of biology, the crucial role played by oxygen often comes into it.” When Rainer Wittig says that he sees himself as an oxygen researcher, he is not just simplifying his job title because essentially, that is exactly what he is. A lot of the molecular biologist’s work revolves around oxygen, in particular its highly reactive forms. Wittig has been head of the biology department at the Ulm-based ILM since…https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/rainer-wittig-oxygen-biology-opens-up-new-paths
Article - 08/12/2009 Karl Stock helps turn ideas into products Karl Stock takes abstract ideas and turns them into useable technological possibilities. The 44-year-old works in what could best be described as the one-man engineering office at the Ulm-based Institute of Laser Technologies in Medicine and Metrology (ILM). In contrast to university institutes, Stock’s work does not simply finish with a “paper” published in a journal. Stock strives to go further and his real work starts where others often stop,…https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/karl-stock-helps-turn-ideas-into-products
Article - 22/09/2009 Alwin Kienle: an eye for the whole picture Harvest time has now come for physicist Alwin Kienle. In the next year or two the results of his basic research will result in the establishment of an applied centre focusing on the determination of the optical characteristics of scattering media. The deputy director of the Ulm-based ILM hopes that the new optical competence centre will lead to attractive solutions for the pharmaceutical medical device and nutrition sectors.https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/alwin-kienle-an-eye-for-the-whole-picture
Press release - 07/07/2009 Investment in the future: ILM receives funds for the purchase of equipment The Ulm-based Institute for Laser Technologies in Medicine and Metrology (ILM) has received a 335,000 euro injection in 2009 through the German government’s Future Investment Programme (Economic Stimulus Packet II), according to the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Economic Affairs Ernst Pfister. The funds, 75 per cent of which are provided by the German government and 25 per cent by the state of Baden-Württemberg, will be used for the modernisation…https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/press-release/investment-in-the-future-ilm-receives-funds-for-the-purchase-of-equipment
Article - 27/05/2009 Raimund Hibst brings laser into dental practices Nowadays, in many dental practices drills are no longer used to remove caries – much to the patients’ delight. Such practices have replaced drills with lasers, a virtually painless method, with low noise levels and which does not require a local anaesthetic. This is all thanks to the work of Raimund Hibst, a physicist from the ILM in Ulm who has spent many years turning research findings into health market applications, in cooperation with…https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/raimund-hibst-brings-laser-into-dental-practices
Press release - 30/03/2009 Baden-Württemberg government to provide financial support of 1.3 million euros to Ulm-based ILM The Institute of Laser Technology in Medicine and Metrology ILM in Ulm one of eleven applied research institutes belonging to the Baden-Württemberg Innovation Alliance will receive government funding totalling about 1.306 million euros.https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/press-release/baden-wuerttemberg-government-to-provide-financial-support-of-1-3-million-euros-to-ulm-based-ilm
Article - 13/06/2008 Basic research with a focus on application In the Centre of Applied Photonics CAP at the University of Constance interdisciplinary teams of researchers are working on new optical technologies with a special focus on laser technology. https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/basic-research-with-a-focus-on-application
Press release - 09/06/2008 Russian-German funding competition Deadline for submitting preliminary proposals written in English is the 30th June 2008.https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/press-release/russian-german-funding-competition