Kanazawa University research: Gut Feeling: Visualizing intestinal tumors
Current atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques that are relied upon to visualize nanoscale images of colon tumors often damage the tissues, thereby yielding an inaccurate depiction.
- Current atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques that are relied upon to visualize nanoscale images of colon tumors often damage the tissues, thereby yielding an inaccurate depiction.
- A research group spearheaded by Masanobu Oshima and Shinji Watanabe at Kanazawa university has utilized a novel form of microscopy to now bridge this gap.
- Some of these mutations result in more aggressive tumors that spread to distant organs.
- However, when a standard electron microscope was used to capture these cells, no discernable differences were found between the groups.