These Are The World's Deadliest Killers

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 14:30 in Physics & Chemistry

Caco-2 Cell These CACO-2 intestinal epithelial cells are derived from cancerous colon cells, and are helping us create new ways to deliver drugs within the human body. Matthew TyskaHIV, cancer, malaria, and more, up close--plus some non-killers, to show what this new microscopy system can do. At three Australian universities, a new tool is allowing researchers to see things that have never been seen before. GE's superfancy new microscope, the DeltaVision OMX Blaze, is designed to see deep into cells to learn exactly how diseases work. Says GE: The OMX, which GE launched in late 2011, uses a combination of optics and powerful computer algorithms to crash though the diffraction barrier, long thought as the limit for the resolution of optical microscopes. (The barrier stops microscopes from distinguishing between two objects separated by less than approximately half the wavelength of light used to image them.) The GE technique, called 3D structured illumination...

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