A highly efficient LED that is deadly to microbes and viruses but safe for people has been engineered by three RIKEN physicists. It could one day help countries emerge from the shadows of pandemics by ...

CARLSBAD, CA / ACCESSWIRE / May 29, 2020 / OPTEC International, Inc., (OTC PINK:OPTI) today announced the company has signed an exclusive distribution agreement for a new line of Far UVC LED ...

CARLSBAD, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 3, 2020 / OPTEC International, Inc., (OTC PINK:OPTI) today announced the company is projecting revenues in excess of $4M for the period ending September 30th, 2020 (Q1 ...

Recent reports have pointed to far-UVC light as a safe-for-human COVID-19 disinfection method. Is this too good to be true? How easy would it be if the world could be removed of coronavirus with a ...

In January 2024, I wrote a big piece on a relatively new, and very promising, approach to fighting respiratory diseases like Covid, tuberculosis, and flus. It’s called “far-UVC,” a type of ultraviolet ...

Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) are a major challenge in everyday medical practice, as they often cannot be treated with antibiotics. According to the Robert Koch Institute, there are 400,000 to ...

Ultraviolet (UV) (10-400 nm) light is everywhere. It constitutes 10 percent of the total electromagnetic radiation in the sunlight. There are three bands of UV we encounter on earth, UVA (315–400 nm), ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Gold writes about wellness design and related housing topics. When Covid reached the U.S. in force earlier this year, very ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has prompted significant economic, scientific, and public efforts to contain ...