A novel dye was introduced by scientists which they think have the potential to outperform all fluorescent dyes currently used in imaging technology.
From microscopes to MRI scanners, imaging technology is growing ever more vital in the world's hospitals, whether for the diagnosis of illness or for research into new cures.
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Imaging technology requires dyes or contrast agents of some sort. Current contrast agents and dyes are expensive, difficult to work with and far from ideal.
Thomas Just Sorensen and Bo Wegge Laursen at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, said that their aza-oxa-trangulenium dyes are ten times better, far cheaper and easier to use than any of the dyes currently available.
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Hairdressers may face an increased risk of cancer because of the dyes and other chemicals they work with, according to the World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research
It might seem odd, but one of the central challenges when taking pictures of cells and organs, is to avoid noise. The agents that make it possible to see microscopic biological structures are luminescent, but then, so is tissue. Consequently, the contrast agent's light risks being overpowered by "light noise".
Just as the dial and hands of a watch might glow-in-the-dark, tissue becomes luminescent when exposed to light. Tissue and other organic structures luminesce, or lights up, for 10 nanoseconds after exposure to light. The light-life of an ordinary dye is the same - 10 nanoseconds.
But triangulenium dyes produce light for an entire 100 nanoseconds.
The long life of the triangulenium dyes means that an image can be produced without background noise. Furthermore, the extra 90 nanoseconds opens the possibility of filming living images of the processes occurring within cells, for example when a drug attacks an illness.
Thomas Just Sorensen concluded that substance could be more widely adopted only when other researchers prove that triangulenium dyes perform just as effectively as its predecessors.
Source: ANI
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It might seem odd, but one of the central challenges when taking pictures of cells and organs, is to avoid noise. The agents that make it possible to see microscopic biological structures are luminescent, but then, so is tissue. Consequently, the contrast agent's light risks being overpowered by "light noise".
Just as the dial and hands of a watch might glow-in-the-dark, tissue becomes luminescent when exposed to light. Tissue and other organic structures luminesce, or lights up, for 10 nanoseconds after exposure to light. The light-life of an ordinary dye is the same - 10 nanoseconds.
But triangulenium dyes produce light for an entire 100 nanoseconds.
The long life of the triangulenium dyes means that an image can be produced without background noise. Furthermore, the extra 90 nanoseconds opens the possibility of filming living images of the processes occurring within cells, for example when a drug attacks an illness.
Thomas Just Sorensen concluded that substance could be more widely adopted only when other researchers prove that triangulenium dyes perform just as effectively as its predecessors.
Source: ANI
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