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Expansion microscopy: Imaging biological samples at nanoscale using an ordinary light microscope
Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for imaging biological samples with accuracy at the scale of 10 nanometers -- which should enable them to image viruses and …
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Expansion microscopy: Imaging biological samples at nanoscale using an ordinary light microscope
Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for imaging biological samples with accuracy at the scale of 10 nanometers -- which should enable them to image viruses and …
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Microbial lipoxygenases: a next target against antibiotic resistance?
Russian researchers Georgy Kurakin, Anna Samoukina and Nadezhda Potapova use bioinformatics to uncover the evolutionary roots of microbial lipoxygenase functionality and raise the possibility that th…
Comment And Analysis
Scientists urge swift action to prepare for next pandemic: calls for an Advanced Information System
An international team of researchers led by Wladek Minor, a University of Virginia School of Medicine professor, is warning that scientists must better prepare for the next pandemic - and has develop…
Interviews
Foundational science of the future
Traditionally pharma has been focused on developing small molecules and chemicals. Here, David Ferrick gives his view on immunology and cell therapy as a rapidly emerging pillar of science and therap…
Focal Point
Flea bacteria
This digitally colourised scanning electron microscopic image depicts a number of yellow Yersinia pestis bacteria.
