Liz New

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The Science Show · Looking inside cells, and how seals hear so well underwater · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

But what we do is use fluorescence.

So we are turning off the lights.

And then the cell is essentially black and we will only see the parts of the cell that we're choosing to light up.

And so that's how we can get a much clearer picture.

So we've got quite a large research interest and collaborators who work on the neurodegenerative diseases, so Parkinson's in particular.

We have worked quite extensively on cancer.

We have some projects looking at diabetes.

So then in that case, we look both at pancreatic cells, but also at the fat cells in our body.

This is where we're moving to more.

So with our small molecule fluorescent sensors, we have until now been really enabling research.

So enabling other researchers to better understand disease.

But for example, I have a collaborator in Sheffield in the UK who has a huge panel of cells from patients with Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.

And she is interested in using our molecules as early predictor of disease or as a way for drug companies to test drugs.

So to say, do our drugs actually help these early symptoms of Parkinson's or Alzheimer's?

Yeah, that's right.

They're used in very low concentrations.

And so in the end, it is very inexpensive to make them.

So at the moment we're using cultured cells, so cells that have been taken out of patients or animals, and then we look at them in a plate under a microscope.

But we're moving also more towards diagnostics, where we would take blood from a patient and use our molecules to diagnose disease or to

look at therapeutic drug monitoring.

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