School of Medicine Dean Nathan Selden, M.D., Ph.D., left, with George Keepers, M.D., after Keepers received the Leadership Award. (Courtesy)

Cathy Galbraith, Ph.D., is co-corresponding author of a new study in Nature Methods that introduces a series of fluorescent dyes that make it much easier to take ultra‑detailed images of living cells. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Cathy Galbraith, Ph.D., is co-corresponding author of a new study in Nature Methods that introduces a series of fluorescent dyes that make it much easier to take ultra‑detailed images of living cells. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

When cells invade, they grip — and now we can see exactly how. The combination of super-resolution imaging and newly developed spontaneously blinking Janelia Fluor dyes reveal the fine molecular architecture of focal adhesions that live cells use to migrate and invade tissue (right) — detail completely invisible to conventional imaging (left). (Courtesy of Cathy Galbraith)

Cathy Galbraith, Ph.D., es coautora correspondiente de un nuevo estudio en Nature Methods que presenta una serie de tintes fluorescentes que facilitan mucho la obtención de imágenes ultra detalladas de células vivas. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Cuando las células invaden, se aferran — y ahora podemos ver exactamente cómo lo hacen. La combinación de imagenología de superresolución y los nuevos tintes Janelia Fluor parpadeantes de desarrollo espontáneo revelan la fina arquitectura molecular de adhesiones focales que las células vivas usan para migrar e invadir tejido (der.) — detalle completamente invisible a la imagenología convencional (izq.). (Cortesía de Cathy Galbraith)