IMAXT: visualizing new connections in cancer research with 3D virtual reality

Written by Tristan Free (Senior Editor)

“It’s immediately clear. The patterns become obvious, and I don’t need to do any statistical analysis to claim, for example, that T-cells are close to blood vessels. I can see it for myself in 3D.” I’m talking to Laura Kütt (left) PhD researcher at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) at the American Association of Cancer Research’s annual meeting (8-13 April 2022; New Orleans, LA, USA) as she gives me a demonstration of a new virtual reality software that she helped to develop. It’s a little disconcerting hearing her disembodied voice as I instinctively look towards the source of the sound...

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