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Live Cell Imaging

Posted by djpbarry on 05 Jun 2019 at 11:00 GMT

"...in molecular and cellular biology, imaging tools require samples to be fixed in space to make it possible to collect enough information to extract a signal out of noisy data, so much of the dynamics of biomolecules are impossible to access experimentally."

A rather surprising assertion - live cell imaging is commonplace in cell biology:
https://dx.doi.org/10.112...

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