Melissa Pandika @mmpandika · May 7
Keisuke Goda has invented the world's fastest camera -- fast enough to spot #cancer cells before they spread
Keisuke Goda has invented the world's fastest camera -- fast enough to spot #cancer cells before they spread
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This Is the Selfie That Could Save Your Life
Engineer Keisuke Goda has built the world's fastest camera. It can see cancer cells that are about to spread.
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THIS IS THE SELFIE THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE
BY MELISSA PANDIKAMAY
RISING STARS
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
His inventions could change the world. Really.
Every moment contains multitudes. In little more than the time it takes to blink, the heart muscles contract, pumping 5 tablespoons’ worth of oxygen-rich blood, while pulses of electricity ripple down the length of a neuron that then releases chemical signals to another — fleeting processes that together sustain the living machinery of our bodies. Engineer Keisuke Goda knows this, which is why he’s invented a camera that stretches out these events, frame by frame.
Goda’s camera is the world’s fastest, capable of filming tiny processes that happen in less than a millisecond, which could allow us to actually see how atoms behave in nuclear fission reactions or how shock waves might damage soldiers’ brain cells.
OZY
This Is the Selfie That Could Save Your Life
Engineer Keisuke Goda has built the world's fastest camera. It can see cancer cells that are about to spread.
View on web
THIS IS THE SELFIE THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE
BY MELISSA PANDIKAMAY
RISING STARS
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
His inventions could change the world. Really.
Every moment contains multitudes. In little more than the time it takes to blink, the heart muscles contract, pumping 5 tablespoons’ worth of oxygen-rich blood, while pulses of electricity ripple down the length of a neuron that then releases chemical signals to another — fleeting processes that together sustain the living machinery of our bodies. Engineer Keisuke Goda knows this, which is why he’s invented a camera that stretches out these events, frame by frame.
Goda’s camera is the world’s fastest, capable of filming tiny processes that happen in less than a millisecond, which could allow us to actually see how atoms behave in nuclear fission reactions or how shock waves might damage soldiers’ brain cells.
Most recently, Goda has developed a device that would allow doctors to spot cancer cells rushing through the bloodstream before they spread to other organs — the cause of 90 percent of cancer deaths. Current imaging techniques aren’t sensitive enough to detect them.
Keisuke Goda’s camera is the world’s fastest, capable of filming tiny processes that happen in less than a millisecond.
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At 40, Goda has published five papers in Nature, the most prestigious life sciences journal, as well as its sister journals.
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At 40, Goda has published five papers in Nature, the most prestigious life sciences journal, as well as its sister journals.
Goda is part of a vast, burgeoning field, which emerged roughly two decades ago, that’s developing technology to image microscopic processes.
Already, one of Goda’s instruments has led to the discovery of rare pulses of light known as optical rogue waves.
Goda has also developed a device based on STEAM that can detect cancer cells migrating from a tumor through the bloodstream, before they seed in distant organs and cause the cancer to spread.
The device could also be used in regenerative medicine. Although scientists have methods for converting regular cells into stem cells, which can then mature into multiple cell types, they don’t always develop into the correct type.
Injecting the wrong type of cell into an organ — a lung cell into the stomach, for example — could cause it to become cancerous. Goda’s device could be used to screen these stem cells before injecting them into patients.
Goda’s technology is being used in clinical tests at UCLA, but will still need years of testing before hospitals could use it.
Goda’s technology is being used in clinical tests at UCLA, but will still need years of testing before hospitals could use it.
And although labs from Hong Kong to the U.K. have begun using STEAM and STAMP for research, only time will tell whether they’ll yield any discoveries.
Goda wants to focus mainly on developing new technologies, leaving the fine-tuning to doctors and companies so he can dive into the next project.
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Melissa Pandika is a lab rat-turned-journalist with an eye to all things science, medicine and more. Likes distance running, snails, late-night Korean BBQ + R+B slow jams.
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