It might sound like the fantasy of a scientist who has read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland too many times, but the concept is the basis for a new method that could enable biologists to image an entire brain in exquisite molecular detail using
an ordinary microscope, and to resolve features that would normally be beyond the limits of optics.
«By propagating through a medium with such a low index, these wave features, which in light are typically too small to detect directly, are expanded so you can see them with
an ordinary microscope.»
An ordinary microscope or telescope can't see detail on a scale less than the wavelength of light.
By making the sample physically larger, it can be imaged with very high resolution using
ordinary microscopes commonly found in research labs.
And he has developed tools that can identify individual proteins inside cells, structures way too small to see with
ordinary microscopes.
Not exact matches
Indeed, they were able to separate the reprogrammed cells from
ordinary fibroblasts under a
microscope, based on several physical differences.
An international research team led by Mats Nilsson at Uppsala University and Stockholm University / SciLifeLab has developed a small, 3D - printed
microscope that is connected to an
ordinary cell phone.
At Success Academy Harlem 5, students were under a
microscope on Thursday — though that wasn't out of the
ordinary for its elementary schoolers.