Turbocharge Your Cell Analysis with Mass Cytometry

Information like this could prove powerful in developing and refining therapy, Dr. Bendall said.

“The idea is that we can build these models up where we can uncouple time and differentiation and division, look at what pathways are on and off, and when they’re on and off,” he said. “And [then we] start thinking about smart ways we can steer the cells into the phenotypes we want them to be.”

Thomas R. Collins is a freelance writer living in South Florida.

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