Added: 09/14/2006 |
How Graduate Students Once Learned about Breast Cancer Research UKIf one were to go around the U.S. looking for science labs where men and women were conducting breast cancer research, one would probably not go to Los Alamos, NM. That is where scientists assembled the first atomic bomb. That is not the type of lab that one associates with research about breast cancer. The following article shows, however, that that remote laboratory has provided the world with a tool for breast cancer researchers.
When those graduate students learned how to stain cells with a fluorescent dye, and to examine those cells in a microscope, they did not realize that many women would one day count on a faster and more precise examination. They had no way of knowing then that the large Los Alamos machine would one day be made smaller. In fact, at that time no one anticipated the ability of technology to bring the abilities of the FMF into a hospital or other clinical laboratory.
Yet 15 years later, at a seminar in Long Beach, CA, a female research associate, who had been a graduate student in the Los Alamos summer program, attended a series of talks on flow cytometry. She had gone to that seminar to learn more about how such cytometry could be used to speed the progress in breast cancer research uk. She discovered that men and women trying to research breast cancer had found that cytometry could offer them important information. It could provide valuable information about any changes in the chromosomes of each cell taken from a breast biopsy.
Cytometry, like FMF, gave researchers a way to pass stained cells one at a time past a detector. The detector picked-up the fluorescent signals coming from the stained cells. Those signals then became passed to a recording device. In that way researchers could discover how successfully treatments for breast cancer had managed to halt the growth of the cancer cells. The information acquired through use of cytometry thus aided the advance of breast cancer research uk.
Fifteen years after attending that seminar, the same woman, then a freelance writer, read about a new procedure called a “pap smear for breasts.” The liquid sample obtained for analysis in that procedure came from the breast duct of various female subjects. The liquid was analyzed with the use of cytometry. Thus the female who had once learned about FMF at Los Alamos became aware of a second way that cytometry could help with breast cancer research uk.
That woman marveled at the number of ways that cytometry had managed to assist with breast cancer research. Her surprise and wonder resulted from her knowledge about the original FMF. The first FMF machines had used a recording device similar to the recorder used on a targeting range. In other words, the U.S. Army’s ability to record the results of its recruits’ target practice had shown the FMF developers at Los Alamos how they could record the signals coming from the FMF detector. Therefore the skills of the U.S. Army had played a part in creating a way to capture further improvements in breast cancer research.
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