September 25, 2012

Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute Engineer Novel DNA Barcode




New technology could launch biomedical imaging to next level

Much like the checkout clerk uses a machine that scans the barcodes on packages to identify what customers bought at the store, scientists use powerful microscopes and their own kinds of barcodes to help them identify various parts of a cell, or types of molecules at a disease site. But their barcodes only come in a handful of "styles," limiting the number of objects scientists can study in a cell sample at any one time.