Visualizing Metabolism
September 14, 2021 | Terry Sharrer
“Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Biological Sciences Division have developed a combined imaging and machine learning technique that can, for the first time, measure a metabolic process at both the cellular and sub-cellular levels. Using a genetically encoded biosensor paired with artificial intelligence, the researchers were able to measure glycolysis, the process of turning glucose into energy, of single endothelial cells, the cells that line blood vessels. They found that when these cells move and contract, they use more glucose, and they also found that cells uptake glucose through a previously unknown receptor.” MORE