Expansion Microscopy Stretches Limits of Conventional Microscopes

An image of neurons in a mouse hippocampus taken with expansion microscopy. Credit Ed Boyden, Fei Chen, Paul Tillberg/MIT
January 19, 2015

Today’s New York Times article covers Prof. Ed Boyden’s new Expansion Microscopy research:

Expansion Microscopy Stretches Limits of Conventional Microscopes
by John Markoff
New York Times

“A new laboratory technique enables researchers to see minuscule biological features, such as individual neurons and synapses, at a nearly molecular scale through conventional optical microscopes.”

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