If you're like most people, the first biological cell you ever saw was flat: a diagram in a book, or maybe a microscope image on a slide if you were lucky. Same goes for scientists. It's hard enough to zoom in on something so small, much less capture a 3D image of the thing. As a result, it's easy to imagine that there is a multitude of two-dimensional discs filling your blood vessels and fighting your infections. That's why this new development is so eye-opening. Researchers have made an imaging breakthrough that lets them capture 3D footage of cells doing their thing inside the body — and it may look nothing like what you imagined.
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New Microscope Captures Detailed 3D Movies of Cells Deep Within Living Systems
Written by
Ashley Hamer
April 24, 2018
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