Super-res light microscopy wins Nobel

By Emma Stoye2014-11-20T00:00:00

Source: © Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Science Photo Library

Studying molecular processes in real time

The 2014 chemistry Nobel prize has been given to three pioneers of biomedical imaging, whose work has enabled nanoscale features within cells to be captured in exquisite detail. Eric Betzig of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, US, Stefan Hell of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany, and W E Moerner of Stanford University, US, will share the prize for ‘the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy’.

Emma Stoye explores this award winning research.

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