Fantastic voyage comes to life.NEW imaging technology could allow doctors to take a "fantastic voyage" through the human body, tracking individual cells and molecules, it was revealed today. The technique, called multi-isotope imaging mass spectrometry mass spectrometry or mass spectroscopy Analytic technique by which chemical substances are identified by sorting gaseous ions by mass using electric and magnetic fields. (MIMS MIMS Music Is My Savior (music album) MIMS Medical Information Management System MIMS Multimedia Integrated Modeling System (US EPA) MIMS Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry ), has the potential to transform future cancer treatment, immunology and stem cell stem cell In living organisms, an undifferentiated cell that can produce other cells that eventually make up specialized tissues and organs. There are two major types of stem cells, embryonic and adult. research. Doctors may be able to pinpoint and measure the take-up of cancer drugs, follow the movements of donor cells and learn why some organ transplants are rejected. The possibilities have echoes of the 1966 sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage, in which a submarine is shrunk to microscopic size and injected into a man's bloodstream. MIMS has already been used to track donor spleen cells in the lymph nodes of a mouse. It has also viewed a single bacteria capturing nitrogen from the atmosphere and "fixing" it into a form useful to life. |
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