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Dacosta Lab celebrates commercialization milestone with new handheld fluorescence imaging device
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Fluorescence imaging of microscopic GFP metastatic colonic tumor cells in mouse lung. Fluorescence imaging during resection of GFP tumor in mouse model. Fluorescence imaging of GFP orthotopic colonic tumor (arrow) in mouse abdomen. The Moleculight RD:100, developed in the Dacosta lab, is now available to scientists around the world! In vivo fluorescence imaging of small animals in preclinical research is used widely across a variety of disciplines such as oncology and infectious disease.  It provides a means of detecting a fluorescent signal within a living animal reflecting specific, mostly disease-related, processes, such as parts of the host immune response, inflammation,…

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DaCosta lab welcomes new member Chris Gibson
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Chris Gibson B.Sc. M.Sc. Candidate, Department of Medical Biophysics c.gibson@mail.utoronto.ca  

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DaCosta lab welcomes new member Timothy Samuel
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Tim Samuel, B.Sc. M.Sc. Candidate, Department of Medical Biophysics tim.samuel@mail.utoronto.ca

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DaCosta Lab welcomes new member Niloufar Khosravi
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Niloufar Khosravi B.Sc, M.Eng, Chemical Engineering McGill University PhD. Candidate, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto Niloufar received her Master’s in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, laboratory of soft tissue biophysics.  She joined our lab in September 2015 pursuing her doctorate in a collaborative program with the Faculty of Dentistry (Davies Lab). She is performing preclinical research on peri-implant endosseous wound healing to understand the dynamic aspects of osteogenesis and neovascularization.

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DaCosta Lab published new study: “In Vivo Imaging Reveals Significant Tumor Vascular Dysfunction and Increased Tumor Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1α Expression Induced by High Single-Dose Irradiation in a Pancreatic Tumor Model”
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http://www.redjournal.org/article/S0360-3016(16)33174-1/abstract  

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