Friday, June 13, 2008

Nanoscope peers beyond the limits of light





The power of light microscopes to resolve fine details has just doubled. A new technique can distinguish tiny structures inside cells, in colour and 3D, even if they are only 100 nanometres apart.

"We have opened a door to a whole new world of structures that you could not see and study before," says Heinrich Leonhardt of the Center for Integrated Protein Science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany.

Full story HERE.