Below are news releases* and up-to-date information relating to biophotonics, medical advances, promising research studies and Biophotonics Research and Technology Development at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

• High tech imaging tells the tale of plaque from the inside out (November 15, 2005)

• Fluorescence Spectroscopy Proves Capable of Detecting Inflammatory Cells in Blood Vessels (August 11, 2005)

• At the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Dr. Laura Marcu from Cedars-Sinai described recent progress on a device that stimulates, collects and measures light emissions from body tissues to diagnose critical atherosclerotic plaques (vulnerable plaques) and aggressive brain tumors. (June 26, 2005)

• Fluoresence Device to Diagnose Atherosclerosis and Tumors Described at Optics Conference (May 27, 2005)

• Study Shows That Fluorescence Spectroscopy Can Distinguish Brain Tumor from Normal Tissue (August 1, 2004)