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Advances in technology and chemistry have played a key role in the emergence of molecular imaging as a viable laboratory tool. From the invention of fluorecent-antibody techniques and in situ hybridization to major advances in confocal microscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, electron microscopy and more recent advances in image processing and analysis, today’s technologies offer the sensitivity and resolution required to visualize molecules in time and space. The latest developments in fluorescent dyes and proteins have further facilitated the study of complex cellular processes using fluorescent staining or labeling of various proteins, ions and lipids in living cells.
The Molecular Imaging Center is a technological facility providing a variety of equipment, and scientific and technical expertise for the general research community of Norway. The mission of the Center is to maintain and develop modern technologies of biological imaging, and make them available to scientists to be applied in specific projects carried out in different research fields, such as Cell and Developmental Biology, Neurobiology, and Cancer Biology.
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