Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a new generation of microscope, which not only could capture 3D live cell videos, but the resulted images are also of much higher quality, greatly enhancing the accuracy and the scope of research on cell biology.

 

While an existing confocal microscope can also capture 3D bio-images, the laser light hitting on the sample is typically one million times that of summer sunlight.  Such intense light exposure inevitably disrupts cell activities and eventually kills the cell, posing limits to the study of cell biology. Read More... 

 

(From left) Prof. DU Shengwang and his team members Dr. ZHAO Teng and Dr. ZHAO Luwei develop a new generation of microscope.
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