Flipping the switch to better see cancer cells at depths (Washington University in Saint Louis) ...

(Source: Washington University in Saint Louis) ​ Using a high-tech imaging method, a team of biomedical engineers at the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis was able to seeearly-developing cancer cells deeper in tissue than ever before with the help of a novel protein from a bacterium. Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the School of Engineering; Junjie Yao, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Wang's lab, and a team of engineers found that by genetically modifying glioblastoma cancer cells to express BphP1 protein, derived from the rhodopsuedomonas...