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Life In Discovery
In order to analyze and quantify experimental outcomes of stem cell therapies, it is necessary to utilize the latest advances in imaging technology combined with rigorous quantitative histology. Stereology is the quantitative approach that is most widely employed.
The Stereology and Microscopy Research Facility (SMRF) is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation. Currently, stereology has been done with a slow and labor-intensive user attended approach utilizing a microscope and stereology software. This year, the University has acquired two new high-throughput microscopes with software that is being developed within the SMRF. These new resources will enable stereology to be done automatically and unattended, thereby saving hours of work for scientists that can be spent advancing other aspects of the CSCRM research mission. Currently, the SMRF is helping to develop software that will be capable of automated cell counting.
The development of this technology benefits not only the CSCRM, but through the availability of these new tools, it will advance the field of stereology for other laboratories both nationally and internationally. Rosalind Franklin University’s support of this endeavor has done much to move the field forward for both the CSCRM and the wider scientific community.