1 Chemical Imaging of Live Cancer Cells in the Natural Aqueous Environment Marina K. Kuimova, 1 K. L. Andrew Chan 2 and Sergei G. Kazarian 2 * 1 Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom Keywords: Living cells, FT-IR Imaging, ATR-FTIR image, cell organelle, label free imaging, cell death.