{"id":881,"date":"2019-01-28T13:35:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T11:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aireligion.org\/?p=881"},"modified":"2019-01-28T13:35:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T11:35:52","slug":"image-of-the-day-bad-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day: Bad Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deep learning program can identify cells with higher metastatic potential based on the way they look and move.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.the-scientist.com\/assets\/articleNo\/65202\/iImg\/29879\/metastatic.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">S<\/span>cientists have developed a method to determine which tumor cells are most likely to metastasize efficiently to distant sites in the body.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ise.bgu.ac.il\/engineering\/PersonalWebSite1main.aspx?id=VVtVrsdu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.ise.bgu.ac.il\/engineering\/PersonalWebSite1main.aspx?id%3DVVtVrsdu&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1544710050177000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFM99xwKMQYfHTr7fqcKuF3O3955Q\">\u00a0Assaf Zaritsky<\/a>, now at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, and his colleagues in Gaudenz Danuser\u2019s lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center designed a deep learning program that analyzes data from live phase-contrast imaging of melanoma cells taken from xenografts\u2014mice implanted with patients\u2019 tumor material. The program determined \u201cthe most representative morphological and behavioral properties of each melanoma cell and then demonstrated that this representation of the cell state can be used to predict in stage III melanoma excised from the lymphatic system the chances of progression to stage IV,\u201d Zaritsky writes to\u00a0<em>The Scientist<\/em>\u00a0in an email. The scientists presented their \u201cquantitative live cell histology\u201d results at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ascb-embo2018.ascb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/12\/PosterAbstracts2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Society for Cell Biology \/ EMBO<\/a>meeting in San Diego on Monday (December 10).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/image-of-the-day\/image-of-the-day--bad-behavior-65202\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deep learning program can identify cells with higher metastatic potential based on the way they look and move. &nbsp; Scientists have developed a method to determine which tumor cells are most likely to metastasize efficiently to distant sites in the body.\u00a0Assaf Zaritsky, now at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, and his colleagues in Gaudenz Danuser\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/?p=881\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Image of the Day: Bad Behavior<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireligion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}