Projektnummer

0060748

Zusammenfassung

Super-resolution light microscopy - e.g. introducing fluorescent molecules and switching them on and off with lasers to 'calculate' much 'sharper' images - allows zooming into the complex nano-world of a cell unveiling their functional mechanistics. However, these super-microscopes are too slow to deal with the very dynamic environments in living cells. Currently, the practised solution is to use chemicals that kill the cell and stop all movement, but this also leads to structural changes. Thus, images from these super-microscopes are not necessarily valid representations of the structures and...