Mirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes

Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 24, 2020 • ~9 min

Creating new opportunities from nanoscale materials

MIT Professor Frances Ross is pioneering new techniques to study materials growth and how structure relates to performance.

Denis Paiste | Materials Research Laboratory • mit
Sept. 5, 2019 • ~17 min

A chemical approach to imaging cells from the inside

Researchers develop a new microscopy system for creating maps of cells, using chemical reactions to encode spatial information.

Karen Zusi | Broad Institute • mit
June 20, 2019 • ~4 min

Scope advance gives first look through all cortical layers of the awake brain

Substantial refinements of three-photon microscopy allow for novel discoveries in neuroscience.

David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
Jan. 11, 2019 • ~7 min

Materials scientists Frances Ross and James LeBeau to join MIT faculty | MIT News

Experts in materials characterization to join the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2018-19.

Rachel Kemper | Department of Materials Science and Engineering • mit
June 5, 2018 • ~4 min

During IAP, MIT community steps out of its comfort zone | MIT News

For a campus that prizes creative risk-taking, Independent Activities Period is a cultural touchstone.

Meg Murphy | School of Engineering • mit
Jan. 10, 2018 • ~5 min

Laser particles could provide sharper images of tissues | MIT News

New imaging technique stimulates particles to emit laser light, could create higher-resolution images.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 3, 2016 • ~6 min

Imaging the brain at multiple size scales | MIT News

New technique can reveal subcellular details and long-range connections.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
July 25, 2016 • ~6 min

Cell squeezing enhances protein imaging | MIT News

Compressing cells allows delivery of new fluorescent tags to track proteins in living cells.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 1, 2016 • ~6 min

New microscope creates near-real-time videos of nanoscale processes | MIT News

Instrument scans images 2,000 times faster than commercial models.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Dec. 14, 2015 • ~7 min

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