Seeing Previously Invisible Molecules for the First Time

Courtesy NSF News  Thu, 10/22/2009 - 15:15

Image of individual red blood cells lined up within a single capillary in a mouse's ear.

A team of Harvard chemists led by X.

Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable fluorescence.

The room-temperature technique allows researchers to identify previously unseen molecules in living organisms and offers broad applications in biomedical imaging and research.

The scientists' results are published in the Oct. 22 issue of Nature. Partial funding for the project was provided by the National Science ...
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