Not only does the microscope have a 100 nanometer resolution, up from the 200 to 300 nanometer focus of conventional microscopes: by mixing several beams of light to create a lighting pattern that varies both horizontally and vertically, it shows cells in three dimensions.
Better yet, it doesn't require special components and is no harder to use than a standard microscope.
This technique, write the researchers in an article published today in Science, "opens interesting new perspectives for molecular cell biology." Indeed it does. And the pictures are also quite lovely.
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