BioCentury
ARTICLE | Tools & Techniques

Seeing is believing

December 12, 2005 8:00 AM UTC

Since the advent of X-rays at the end of the 19th century, physicians have used imaging to make diagnoses and to direct treatment strategies. But there is a growing realization that the value of imaging goes upstream, beyond diagnostics, into drug discovery and development.

Molecular imaging is the name given to a new systems biology platform of technologies that can look at biological processes and changes in living subjects, often in real time. It involves the convergence of image-capture techniques, molecular biology, biochemistry, pharmacology, bioinformatics, mathematics, biophysics and medicine. ...