Apoptosis

Cell death in beautiful fluorescence

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Howto & Style

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• Cell
• Biology
• Apoptosis
• Death

[kandrew5v5]

There is a new technology called pSIVA that allows for amazing detection of apoptosis. Check it out

[chinenyuki]

suicide of cell is interesting.apoptosis is active death,not passive death.

[ff2paladin]

Hmm, wonder who's voicing this? Sounds familiar

[CagriKurtKAL]

what is the music starting at 2:03, if anyone knows, i would appreciate it :)

[kandrew5v5]

@gutrp No problem, if you are interested in pSIVA let me know.. I know both the creators at USC and the Suppliers at Imgenex. It's applications in fixed tissue are amazing. The best part is there is no background fluorescence unlike Annexin-V staining.

[gutrp]

@kandrew5v5 Thanks..that was helpful (about pSIVA)

[DanofDodorpia]

Who would have thought cells dying could be so beautiful? This helped my understanding a lot. I thought I already had quite a good grasp of it but certainly helps to have a visual representation of it.

[Silverlight777]

@derfunkhaus That's true. Technical words/terminology are said differently by numerous groups of people (e.g. the different pronunciations of the word "evolution"). I just thought it would be interesting to note that the first person who introduced/invented the word "Apoptosis" to describe this phenomena had intended the word to be pronounced in a certain way (the way it's spelt is contrary to the way it is said according to the author). Not a big deal though. Your comment has great merit. :)

[derfunkhaus]

The original paper may attempt to dictate how the word is spoken, but clearly the world has chosen not to follow. In other words, cell biologists do not get to dictate what is the "correct" way to say the word.

[vincentgenius]

beautiful

[cafediji]

Espectacular... la maravillosa complejidad de la naturaleza