Researchers have married two biological imaging
technologies, creating a new way to learn how good cells go bad.
"Let's say you have a large population of cells,"
said Corey Neu, an assistant professor in Purdue University's Weldon School of
Biomedical Engineering. "Just one of them might metastasize or
proliferate, forming a cancerous tumor. We need to understand what it is that
gives rise to that one bad cell."
Such an advance makes it possible to simultaneously study the
mechanical and biochemical behavior of cells, which could provide new insights
into disease processes, said biomedical engineering postdoctoral fellow
Charilaos "Harris" Mousoulis.