Laser Tweezers Raman Spectroscopy (LTRS)
By Novanta Photonics
One in two people born after 1960 in the UK will be diagnosed with some form of cancer during their lifetime. Analysis of cancer tissue at the bulk level means individual cell attributes are averaged, and therefore single cell methods are of interest, both in a diagnostic setting and in the context of drug-cell interaction studies. In recent years, significant progress has been made into the label-free detection and discrimination of individual cancer cells using Laser Tweezers Raman Spectroscopy (LTRS). However, LTRS methods have invariably involved a high degree of manual intervention, and before this technique can be translated into a clinical setting a greater degree of automation is required.
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