Cancer Holography for Personalized Medicine

David D. Nolte

Digital holography can measure the 3D physiology and motion of cancer cells, allowing identification of effective chemotherapies for patients.

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The overarching characteristic of animate matter is that it moves. Living systems move at all scales, including motions that run rampant within cells. And cancer, as a dynamic disease, is characterized fundamentally by altered states of that intracellular motion.

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