The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: A Large-Scale Prize for Achievements on the Nanoscale
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The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, and William E. Moerner "for the development of superresolved fluorescence microscopy" can be seen as a combined prize for single-molecule detection and superresolution imaging. Neurons, arguably the most morphologically complex cell type, are the subject of choice for this application, now generically called "nanoscopy."
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Neuron
دوره 84 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014