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Discuss “New gene imaging technique peers into living tissue”

CMU scientists, in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Nuclear Magnetic Research Center for Biomedical Research, have developed new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology that will allow doctors and scientists to visualize the expression of specific genes in live tissue. This is the first time technology is under development that will allow scientists to monitor gene expression in live organisms, without having to sacrifice the organism.

?Our new MRI technology can be used in a variety of applications,? says Dr. Eric Ahrens, assistant professor of biological sciences in the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon. ?It can be used to specifically show if initial conditions and locations of gene delivery were as expected.?

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