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Optics used to track single cell's growth
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Researchers at the University of Illinois are using optics to measure a basic biological process: the growth of single cells. It’s a process that has been difficult to quantify using other methods. Beyond basic science, the technique could have implications for cancer treatment.
“Determining the growth patterns of single cells,” the researchers write in a new study, “offers answers to some of the most elusive questions in contemporary cell biology: how cell growth is regulated and how cell size distributions are maintained.”
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Photo credit: Beckman Institute, University of Illinois
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