9 SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS, NAMELY, LASER-BASED OPTICAL SYSTEMS COMPRISING ONE OR MORE ILLUMINATION SOURCES, NAMELY, ILLUMINATION LASERS, LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES, INCANDESCENT ARC SOURCES AND ONE OR MORE ELECTRONIC DETECTORS FOR DIGITAL IMAGING; LASER CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL DATA FOR THE DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THERAPEUTICS AND THE DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE