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03 July 2026
Deep Cell Pursuit
Tagging red blood cells and neutrophils ('first responder' cells of the immune system) with distinct optoacoustic signatures (using near-infrared dyes) allows real-time cell tracking in vessels deep in a live mouse's brain (cerebral vasculature represented left and flow velocity right). Clinical application of such principles in the future, for example after a stroke, could accelerate diagnosis and recovery
Read the published research article here
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- Still from video from work by Lin Tang and colleagues
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Science Advances, June 2026
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