Monday, March 12, 2007
TR10: Single-Cell Analysis
Norman Dovichi believes that detecting minute differences between individual cells could improve medical tests and treatments.
By Jon Cohen
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Analyzing individual cells allows researchers to distinguish between a uniform population of cells (above left) and a group of cells with members having, say, different protein content (above right). The ability to recognize such differences could be essential to understanding diseases such as cancer or diabetes.
Credit: Elaine Kurie |
This article is one in a series of 10 stories we're running this week covering today's most significant emerging technologies. It's part of our annual "10 Emerging Technologies" report, which appears in the March/April print issue of Technology Review.
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