Is it alive or dead? Team shows how to measure the thermal signatures of single cells

To the ancients, probing the philosophical question of how to distinguish the living from the dead centered on the "mystery of the vital heat." To modern microbiology, this question was always less mysterious than it was annoying—researchers have known that biological processes should produce thermal signatures, even within single cells, but nobody ever knew how to measure them.

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