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Tracking Heart Cells with Lasers and the Future of Biophotonics
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It is extremely difficult to image single cells inside living animals, but it is necessary to investigate how cells and tissues inside the body function. The use of light-based techniques enables researchers to image, identify and engineer such unique entities, but can only penetrate a certain distance through tissues.
New and improved biophonic techniques are needed to help us see further into the body. A team of Scotland researchers believes its new microscopy technique can do just that. Using a micrometer-sized laser, the team was able to track beating-induced changes in the refractive index of heart cells.
Lighting Up Heart Cells with Tiny Lasers
May 11, 2021•
Physics 14, 71
A new microscopy technique that uses micrometer-sized lasers can track beating-induced changes in a heart cell’s refractive index.
M. Schubert/University of St Andrews Micrometer-sized lasers placed inside heart cells can track the beating of these dynamics systems.
M. Schubert/University of St Andrews Micrometer-sized lasers placed inside heart cells can track the beating of these dynamics systems.×
No easy method exists for imaging single cells inside live animals. Marcel Schubert of the University of St Andrews, UK, hopes his newly demonstrated technique could change that. In a talk at the Optical Society s Biophotonics Conference last month, Schubert discussed how he and his colleagues have tracked the beating of heart cells using micrometer- and nanometer-sized lasers placed directly inside the cells. The lasers could allow researchers to monitor the dynamics of cells deep inside live tis