Molecular Imaging

Molecular imaging is a non-invasive method of tracking cell fate and visualising cell kinetics in small animals after transplantation. It allows the accurate, sensitive and quantitative assessment of tumour development and treatment in real-time. In past years fluorescence, bioluminescence and PET-based molecular imaging has contributed hugely to our understanding of tumours, infectious diseases, and stem cell biology. Stratech suplies a range of dual-reporter imaging lentivectors and minicircle DNA vectors that allow both bioluminescence and fluorescence imaging. These are are the same vectors used in Nature Protocols (Sun N, et al. Nat Protoc. 2009; 4(8): pp1192-201) and are now a well-established system.