Advanced Technology for Cellular Imaging
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Cell Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 1243
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structural biology; electron microscopy; protein–protein interaction; protein flexibility
Interests: cancer metabolism; redox homeostasis; leukemia
2. National Cryo-EM Program, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, MD 21701, USA
Interests: cryo-electron microscopy (or cryoeEM); cryo-electron tomography; structural biology; single-particle analysis; micrograph processing software; cellular segmentation; virology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Understanding the correlation between cellular organization and function is one of the major goals of biology. In this context, imaging techniques allow for cell investigation at the subcellular to the macromolecule level. Although confocal and electron microscopy have become commonly used techniques for cellular studies, new technological advances keep appearing, allowing us to obtain more and more information than before. Light microscopy can overcome the diffraction limit, and electron tomography can provide high-resolution protein structures. Moreover, multiparameter fluorescence imaging allows for concomitantly analyzing multiple biomarkers in the same sample by exploiting the whole spectrum. Finally, the possibility of performing electron and fluorescent microscopy on the same sample allows the researcher to identify labeled cell portions before their high-resolution characterization through EM. In parallel, computational methods, driven by the recent implementation of artificial intelligence, have become essential tools in improving and developing new cell imaging techniques.
This Special Issue aims to examine the most recent advances in cell biology imaging techniques and discuss the future direction these techniques will take. Therefore, we welcome Original Research and Review articles covering the latest and current findings, methods, and applications in the wide field of cell imaging, with a specific interest in innovative approaches driven by recent technological advances.
Dr. Alessandro Grinzato
Dr. Vittoria Raimondi
Dr. J. Bernard Heymann
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- electron tomography
- fluorescence microscopy
- live cell imaging
- multimodal imaging
- super resolution microscopy
- cell–cell interaction
