image: The authors transplanted tattoo cells into mice with either hypercalcemic tumors or with tumors that don't cause hypercalcemia. Hypercalcemic mice displayed the tattoo (top row) while the non-hypercalcemic mice did not (bottom row). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 18 April, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Tastanova at ETH Zurich in Basel, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, " Synthetic biology-based cellular biomedical tattoo for detection of hypercalcemia associated with cancer." view more
Credit: A. Tastanova <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2018)