TY - JOUR
AU - Kuska, Bob
AB - .News. News mer thermoplastic film -— the same plas- tic seal found on a container of yogurt New Aim-and-Shoot Technique Michael Emmert-Buck, M.D., Ph.D., an NCI scientist and lead author Speeds Up Cell Analysis of the paper, said the group's prototype device works on the same basic aim- Researchers at the National Institutes noticed in the tissue specimen, compro- and-shoot principle as an Instamatic of Health reported recently that they mising the analytical process. camera (see box). have developed a new aim-and-shoot Laser capture microdissection is a Emmert-Buck said he and his col- technique that can pull out a small clus- fully automated, one-step technique leagues purposely designed their device ter of cells from a tissue sample in as lit- that, in today's high-tech world, has with a camera in mind. "We wanted an tle as 8 seconds. emerged as a remarkably low-tech solu- instrument that any scientist could sit By taking the cells directly from the tion. It integrates a standard laboratory down and use immediately," he said. tissue, they can immediately analyze microscope with a low-energy laser and a "That meant creating a fully automated, the cells' gene and protein activity with transparent ethylene vinyl acetate poly- 
TI - New Aim-and-Shoot Technique Speeds Up Cell Analysis
JF - JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
DO - 10.1093/jnci/88.23.1708
DA - 1996-12-04
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/new-aim-and-shoot-technique-speeds-up-cell-analysis-G1xRx8WZy9
SP - 1708
EP - 1709
VL - 88
IS - 23
DP - DeepDyve
ER -