“By combining the established concepts, we developed a new technique for super-resolution microscopy. Its main advantage is it enables extremely high resolution in three dimensions, despite using a relatively simple setup,” says Dr Jan Christoph Thiele, first author of the publication, Göttingen University. “This will be a powerful tool with numerous applications to resolve protein complexes and small organelles with sub-nanometer accuracy. Everyone who has access to confocal microscope technology with a fast laser scanner and fluorescence lifetime measurements capabilities should try this technique,” says Dr Oleksii Nevskyi, one of the corresponding authors.
“The beauty of the technique is its simplicity. This means that researchers around the world will be able to implement the technology into their microscopes quickly,” adds Professor Jörg Enderlein who led the research team at the Biophysics Institute, Göttingen University. This method shows promise to become a powerful tool for multiplexed 3D super-resolution microscopy with extraordinary high resolution and a variety of applications in structural biology.
The results were published in Science Advances .
Source: University of Göttingen
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