The Cellometer instruments have a wide range of functionality – this publication demonstrates how an instrument such as the Cellometer Vision can be used for more than just viability and can perform many cell-based assays. Fructose differs from glucose in that it is not regulated by a negative feedback loop and can thereby negatively impact intracellular energy stores. As the incidence of diabetes and obesity have risen in this country, so has the intake of fructose, making fructose’s effects on pancreatic cells important to understand. Here, researchers at Rowan University revealed that fructose sensitizes pancreatic beta cells to TNF-a-induced toxicity. [...]