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Ferda Canbaz on Uni News
Uni News has published a great article on Ferda Canbaz, head of the laser lab of the MIRACLE II Project. She has "a burning passion for lasers", as the headline puts it.
National MD-PhD Grant for Christian Haas of BLOG
Christian Haas of the BLOG group has been granted with 188.250 CHF from SNSF within the National MD-PhD Program of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMW). He received the grant for his project “OCT-guided laser skin ablation system”.
A New Chapter in Histology
Histology is the gold standard for cellular resolution histopathological analysis. However, tissue morphology and density are irreversibly changed by the preparation steps, which include chemical fixation, dehydration, embedding, staining,…