OnLume received the $300,000 Phase I SBIR grant through the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of imaging and lighting systems for transient lighting in fluorescence image-guided surgery.
Author: Brian Mattmiller
Can artery ‘banks’ transform vascular medicine?
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Getting personal with pancreatic cancer
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Early development reveals axolotl mysteries
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