Shedding light on cancer metabolism in real-time with bioluminescence

(Ecole Polytechnique F é d é rale de Lausanne) Cancerous tumors can be made to bioluminesce, like fireflies, according to the level of their glucose uptake, giving rise to a technique for quantifying metabolite absorption. The firefly imaging technique for sugar can be translated from cancer to many other metabolic diseases.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news