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1. März 2017
Nanoinjection increases survival rate of cells
Physicists at Bielefeld University develop new methods for microscopic research
How
do tumours grow? And how do bacteria transform harmless substances into
medical agents? When biophysicists want to understand what is happening
in living cells, they have to introduce fluorescent probes or other
foreign molecules. There are several ways to overcome the cell wall
without causing the cell permanent harm. Physicists at Bielefeld
University have developed a particularly gentle method for this:
nanoinjection. In a new study to be found in ‘Scientific Reports’
published by ‘Nature’, they show that with this method, nine out of ten
cells survive being injected with foreign molecules.
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