Imágenes de resolución nanométrica y seguimiento de moléculas fluorescentes con flujos mínimos de fotones

Francisco Balzarotti1, Yvan Eilers2, Klaus C Gwosch2

  • 1Department of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany. stefan.hell@mpibpc.mpg.de francisco.balzarotti@mpibpc.mpg.de.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 24, 2016
PubMed
Resumen

Desarrollamos MINFLUX (Multiplexed Ion Nanometer Localization eXperiment), un nuevo método para localizar con precisión las moléculas fluorescentes. Esta técnica utiliza menos fotones para imágenes de alta resolución, lo que permite una observación más rápida de los procesos celulares.

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