Nov. 22, 2011

Optically Measuring Single Cell Mass

The ability to measure single cell growth is of fundamental importance to our understanding of biological systems. Despite several major efforts, studying this phenomenon has remained largely intangible due to the simple fact that cells are small and only double their mass during their lifetime. In order to draw conclusions on growth trends and gain insight on growth regulatory systems, the required sensitivity to mass is in the order of femtograms.

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