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The Cells in Motion (CiM) Interfaculty Centre brings together and supports researchers from medicine, biology, chemistry, pharmacy, mathematics, computer science and physics who join forces to work on a big topic: They investigate how cells behave in organisms. To this end, they employ and develop innovative imaging methods. Our interfaculty network is the centrepiece of the University of Münster’s research focus in “cell dynamics, inflammation and imaging”.

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Research team visualises chemical signals of individual cells

How do cells in tumour tissue communicate with each other, and what can we learn about cancer from this? Researchers working with Professor Klaus Dreisewerd and Dr Jens Soltwisch at the University of Münster have developed a method combining fluorescence microscopy and mass spectrometry imaging. Using this method, they were able to reveal metabolic differences between individual cells for the first time.