Non-invasive imaging

Science Codex (San Jose, Calif., March 24) -- A new technique, developed by researchers in the Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory at the Beckman Institute at Illinois, provides a method to noninvasively measure human neural networks in order to characterize how they form. Using spatial light interference microscopy techniques developed by electrical and computer engineering professor Gabriel Popescu, the director of the lab, the researchers were able to show for the first time how human embryonic stem cell-derived neurons within a network grow, organize spatially, and dynamically transport materials to one another. Also: AZoNano (Warriewood, New South Wales, March 25), NBC News (March 28), Extreme Tech (March 28).