The American researcher builds a heart growth tracking microscope with a $1 million grant

The American researcher plans to make a microscope to track the growth of heart cells with 4D resolution.

According to Tekna technology and technology news service, with the help of dynamic tracking of heart cells, they can be used to model cellular interactions. Currently, current microscopes cannot record the movements of cells.

Joohyun Lee, an associate professor of bioengineering at the University of Texas, has received $1.94 million in funding from the US National Institutes of Health to use his research to develop an imaging system to track the growth cells of the heart. Currently, old microscopes can magnify the cell while observing it, but it is not possible to observe its relationship with the surroundings. Researcher Lee’s system includes a microscope and advanced computational post-processing, which uses a new generation of imaging devices for biomedical researchers.

This microscope is able to zoom in on the desired point with high resolution and scan its field of view by moving left and right. The order of a complete connected view will be observed along with the additional scan, which also creates a 3D model from the images. This researcher said that with the help of this microscope, he plans to monitor the cells of organs such as the heart that have dynamic movement to see where they will go with the growth of the heart.