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Brain Blood vessels Lungs Heart Pancreas Liver Kidney Cartilage Bone Muscle 1 Scanning electron micrograph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 2 3 Sarah Stanley Deb Hung 4 1.7 million deaths/year Tuberculosis 9.2 million new


  1. Brain Blood vessels Lungs Heart Pancreas Liver Kidney Cartilage Bone Muscle 1

  2. Scanning electron micrograph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 2

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  4. Sarah Stanley Deb Hung 4

  5. 1.7 million deaths/year Tuberculosis 9.2 million new cases/year Estimated new TB cases per 100,000 population WHO report, 2008 5

  6. Search for tuberculosis treatments Without drug With drug blue = human cells green = tuberculosis bacteria 6

  7. Put bacteria and cells in individual wells of multi-well plates Add thousands of test chemicals, each chemical in a different well Automated microscope 7

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  9. Rifampicin - positive control 15 Number of bacteria : 211 Number of human cells : Average roundness of human cells (choose a score = 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1): 5 10 = round irregular = 1 9

  10. Computerized image analysis Find cells Find bacteria Count the number of bacteria per cell 10

  11. www.CellProfiler.org Cell measurements 11

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  13. Remaining slides go along with the teacher ’ s video guide 13

  14. www.CellProfiler.org 14

  15. www.Scratch.mit.edu 15

  16. See the written teacher ’ s guide for: Sources for materials for a bacterial growth experiment Websites with lesson plans for testing everyday samples for bacterial growth 16

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