For personalized molecular medicine to become a common practice, science need more information about the molecular phenomena of developmental processes, including apoptosis (programmed cell death).  To that end researchers at SUNY, Buffalo’s Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics have used several photonic and biophotonic methods to image proteins, lipids and nucleic acids in cells undergoing apoptosis.  Proteins were labeled red; RNA, green; DNA, blue, and lipids, gray.  In pharmaceutical research, this approach might show whether or not an experimental drug was working, and more importantly, exactly what it did.  The same might be true with biopsied tissue.              MORE