New technology may improve tracking of changes in cancer cells, investigators say
HealthDay (4/15, Preidt) reported, “A new imaging technology could help improve the tracking of changes in cancer cells, according to researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine.” Using “specially designed dye-containing nanoparticles,” the technology allows researchers to “simultaneously measure dozens of features in or on a single cell.” The technology “enhances the detection of ultra-specific but weak patterns, known as Raman signals, that are emitted by molecules in response to light.” For the study, appearing online Apr. 15 in PLoS One, researchers “used the technology to simultaneously monitor changes in two intracellular proteins that play important roles in cancer development.” The researchers noted that “if further development of the technique is successful…it could improve the ability to diagnose cancers and to separate living, biopsied cancer cells from one another based on characteristics indicating their stage of progression or their level of resistance to chemotherapy drugs.”
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