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Home > News > Ultra-Powerful New Microscope Displays Molecules and Cell Movement In Real Time

January 11th, 2010

Ultra-Powerful New Microscope Displays Molecules and Cell Movement In Real Time

Abstract:
For scientists studying the smallest components of life, microscopes have always had frustrating limitations. Electron scanning microscopes can see very small object, but not in real time through the dynamic movement of cells. Fluorescent dyes identify microscopic objects, but the brightness of the emitted light greatly reduces the resolution.

The Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscope (STORM) solves both those problems. 100 times more powerful than a regular optical microscope, the STORM filters and adjusts light emitted from fluorescent dyes to produce a clean image of individual molecules, and thus allowing researchers to watch the behavior of proteins in real time.

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