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microscopy

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The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture

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Stefan Hell of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, William Moerner of Stanford University in California, and Eric Betzig of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia, "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy".

The development of super-resolution microscopy in the 20th century broke this so-called diffraction limit.

Expansion microscopy is the latest in a series of new methods developed to probe brain structure and function in increasing detail.

The two main malaria diagnosis tools used in the field – the so-called rapid diagnostic tests and microscopy – were neither expensive nor difficult to use.

On Wednesday, Stefan Hell of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, William Moerner of Stanford University in California, and Eric Betzig of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia won the chemistry prize "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy".

Scientists therefore have to resort to a bizarre toolkit of indirect methods such as X-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance or cryo-electron microscopy to provide the data that allow three-dimensional molecular models to be reconstructed in the computer.

The new method, called expansion microscopy, involves first treating brain tissue with fluorescently-labelled antibodies that bind to specific cellular proteins, then infusing it with a solution containing sodium acrylate and several other chemicals that help the salt molecules cross-link with each other.

They mocked the project, not least because Dr Rohrer and Dr Binnig had no background either in surface science or in microscopy.

The three-dimensional arrangement of the cells and muscles within each slice was determined by microscopy, and that information added to the geometric data in the computer.

Electron microscopy is able to resolve much smaller details than optical microscopy can manage, but because it must take place in a vacuum it cannot be used to study living samples.

Scanning electron microscopy examines the surfaces of samples for minute signs of damage.

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