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Work Group 3 - Life Science and Health
Photonics has demonstrated a long tradition in the fields of life science and health.
Photonics technology is the only technology that can diagnose the single molecule level into a living cell or cell culture.
That’s why today it represents an indispensable tool. Laser diagnosis and treatments in ophthalmology, dermatology and other medical fields, for example, have evolved into standard procedures in the last two decades.
Photonics technology is the only technology that can diagnose the single molecule level into a living cell or cell culture.
That’s why today it represents an indispensable tool. Laser diagnosis and treatments in ophthalmology, dermatology and other medical fields, for example, have evolved into standard procedures in the last two decades.
The role of photonics as the key enabling factor in health care and life sciences will grow tremendously in the future.
Indeed, advances in photonics will have a huge impact in major application areas: so far, still the origins of 80% of diseases are unknown; therefore only symptoms can be treated. There is still no real cure for wide spread diseases like cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, cardiovascular problems, inflammatory, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases.
Moreover, due to the demographic changes and an increasingly aging population health care costs are rising. Photonics can play a major role in containing or even reducing costs and at the same time they improve the quality of health care as well as the quality of life.
Indeed, advances in photonics will have a huge impact in major application areas: so far, still the origins of 80% of diseases are unknown; therefore only symptoms can be treated. There is still no real cure for wide spread diseases like cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, cardiovascular problems, inflammatory, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases.
Moreover, due to the demographic changes and an increasingly aging population health care costs are rising. Photonics can play a major role in containing or even reducing costs and at the same time they improve the quality of health care as well as the quality of life.
Some predictions until 2015:
Life sciences
The understanding of cell processes, tissues and model organisms will be improved by the use of imaging and manipulation systems which allow 3D-real-time, invivo visualization and manipulation of molecules and cell structures.Health
Today, treatment on the basis of the apparent disease symptoms is in practice. In the future, the origin of diseases will be detected and cured before symptoms occur. Ideally, the formation of diseases will be prevented by early detection.
Screening the human secretion metabolites like breath, saliva, urine, perspiration or the spectral analysis of the retina could be a possible way of monitoring this status non invasively and automatically.
Bench-top size sequencers will allow patient stratification according to genomic data and thus, reduce the number of patients, which have to be dismissed because of drug side effects.
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