Tag: Wellman Center for Photomedicine

  • Nation & World

    Helping hands bring laser light to Armenia

    Lilit Garibyan has brought her medical skills back to her native Armenia, decades after her family fled during war with neighboring Azerbaijan.

    9 minutes
    Rex Anderson and Lilit Garibyan
  • Nation & World

    Super cool way to lose fat

    The lab that invented cryolipolisis or “Coolsculpting,” a popular nonsurgical method for reducing fat under the skin, is developing a promising new form of the technology that can selectively reduce fat almost anywhere in the body using an injectable ice solution or “slurry.”

    4 minutes
    A 3D rendering of fat cells.
  • Nation & World

    A closer look at atherosclerosis

    Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a one-micrometer-resolution version of the intravascular imaging technology optical coherence tomography (OCT) that can reveal cellular and subcellular features of coronary artery disease.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A living laser

    In a new report, Harvard researchers Malte Gather and Seok-Hyun Yun describe how a single cell genetically engineered to express green fluorescent protein can be used to amplify the light particles called photons into nanosecond-long pulses of laser light.

    4 minutes