Glowing Proteins with Promising Biological and Medical Applicaitons

摘要

Under the lens of a microscope, a mouse is still from anesthesia. Every few seconds, a camera captures images of brightly glowing cancer cells moving through the mouse's blood vessels. Robert Hoffman, a professor of surgery at the University of California, San Diego, studies the images of spreading cancer. Each cancer cell glows red, while its nucleus glows green. Some cancer cells roll and crawl on blood vessel walls while others collide and drift through the bloodstream.