News From the Field New Label-free Method Tracks Molecules and Drugs in Live Cells
December 18, 2008
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A new type of highly sensitive microscopy developed by researchers at Harvard University could greatly expand the limits of modern biomedical imaging, allowing scientists to track the location of minuscule metabolites and drugs in living cells and tissues without the use of any kind of fluorescent labeling.
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