Ken Crozier, associate professor at Harvard University, shows off three optical devices he’s developing in the lab. These devices use laser light to grab onto particles such as biological cells and might be integrated into clinical diagnostics.
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In this video of a mouse embryo, made 8.5 days after conception and one day after the heart has begun to form, the heartbeat is visible. The video was made using a variation on a technique called optical-coherence tomography. It’s being used by researchers at the University of Houston to take the highest resolution video yet of the developing mammalian heart. Their goal is a better understanding of why one percent of US infants are born with cardiovascular problems.
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