Help Professor Jonathon Pines, Head of the Division of Cancer Biology, and his team research and further our understanding of how cancer develops when the complex process of cell division goes wrong by using the lattice light sheet microscope.

The ICR is the first research organisation in the UK to acquire a lattice light sheet microscope

This pioneering technology has the potential to revolutionise cancer research, by using ‘Bessel beams’. These are so narrow they can reveal details in cells unseen using a normal light, while avoiding any damage to the cell itself.

Using this technology, Professor Pines will be able to analyse the biological processes inside a living, dividing cell, in a way that hasn’t previously been possible.

Studying exactly how cells maintain the stability of the genome during normal cell division is critical to understand the development and evolution of cancer, and to open up new approaches to treatment. This is a key aspect of our new five-year research strategy.

By improving our understanding of the fundamental causes of cancer, we hope to be able to discover better, kinder treatments.

A gift from you today, to fund research using this new microscope, will help us take the next step in outsmarting cancer and bring hope to future generations of cancer patients.

Thank you so much for your support.

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