Biologists and physicists have worked together to create candy-colored images of cells in high resolution that are both eye-catching and useful in research.
The microscopic pictures are of various subjects, from fluorescent green strands of protein to monkey kidney cells.
“These images also bring us to a beautiful world beyond the grasp of our normal senses,” Amy S. Gladfelter of Dartmouth University and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) said in a press release. “In this way microscopes give us beauty and [biological or medical] application, often in the same image.”
“We are beginning to understand the basis for cell organization at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution through the creative application of fundamental physics to microscopy.”
The new images let us look at fundamental processes inside cells. They may be useful for diagnosing cancer or discovering new pharmaceuticals.
