Scientists and engineers at Stellenbosch University have developed a ‘visualisation tool’ that can, in three dimensions (3D) in space, as well as in time, automatically localise and quantify specific processes inside biological cells, such as those that make up the human body. The main focus for the new ‘tool’ is mitochondrial fission and fusion, hence its name – the Mitochondrial Event Localiser (MEL). The Stellenbosch researchers who developed the tool are Dr Rensu Theart, Prof. Ben Loos, Prof. Thomas Niesler, Jurgen Kriel and André du Toit. The paper describing their results was published in the journal “Plos One”.
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