Do these world-first images hold key to cancer cure?

May 29, 2007

A breakthrough in imaging techniques could enable scientists to watch the moment that cancer first strikes, holding out the prospect of radical new treatments.

In a world first, researchers at Dundee University managed to film healthy, live cells within an embryo dividing and redividing after developing a new way of using a powerful microscope. The film shows the birth of neurons – which form the brain and nervous system – as cells in a chicken’s egg divide into two, a nerve cell and a “mother cell” that goes on to divide again. (The Scotsman)