Thermal Signature of a Single Cell
October 15, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
You’ll have to access the issue of Applied Physics Letters in which the article appears, but in brief, researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Korea have used a nanoscale thermal probe to detect the heat signature of three different single cells that were confined in microwells. One of the cell types was HeLa—now grown for more than 60 years after Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer. The researchers believe that as research advances it may be possible to diagnose disease based on differences in the thermal properties of cells. MORE
Image Credit: Pohang Unversity of Science and Technoloy and Applied Physics Letters