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Cell Worlds: meet the microscopists

Posted by , on 14 July 2022

February, 2022 saw the world premiere of the Cell Worlds documentary and exhibition. Cell Worlds was created by co-founders Renaud Pourpre and Terence Saulnier to bring microscopy out of the lab and display it in new ways to new audiences. Here, we focus on the team of microscopists who provided the images and movies.
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An Interview with Ramiro Tomasina

Posted by , on 7 June 2022

Ramiro Tomasina is a PhD student since 2020 in Dr. Maria Eugenia Francia’s lab at Institut Pasteur Montevideo and he holds a position as assistant grade two in the Department of Parasitology and Mycology of the School of Medicine at Universidad de la Republica. He is a Pharmaceutical Chemist by training, and has worked on
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What is Expansion Microscopy?

Sponsored by Andor, on 27 May 2021

How can you get the most information from expanded samples? Traditional light microscopy is limited by the diffraction of light, consequently, features less than 200 nm apart cannot be resolved. For a significant time microscopy technique development was focused towards improving imaging techniques to allow for individual molecules to be resolved. Super-resolution microscopy was developed
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Expansion microscopy

Posted by , on 29 July 2020

Written by Shoh Asano and Ruixuan Gao Light microscopy and diffraction limit For centuries, light microscopy has played a central role in biological studies. The first implementations of a light microscope dates back to as early as the late 16th and early 17th century, when an array of polished lenses was used to magnify (biological)
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