This specially designed robotic microscope provides scientists in the lab of Steve Finkbeiner, MD, at the Gladstone Institutes a unique window into healthy and diseased human brain cells.
The microscope is fully automated and can find and track individual cells over weeks or months. This feature allows the scientists to observe the process of neurodegeneration as it unfolds and monitor the effects of drugs and other manipulations designed to stop it. Finkbeiner's lab treats each cell like a patient in a clinical trial, using the same statistical tools to study disease and test drugs.
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