{"id":391,"date":"2011-10-25T15:33:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T20:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/?p=391"},"modified":"2014-12-09T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T17:30:56","slug":"391","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/2011\/10\/391\/","title":{"rendered":"Microscopy method brings \u2018nano-world\u2019 into focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">A new technique for imaging whole cells in liquid \u2013 with a nanometer  resolution that brings into focus individual proteins and other  intracellular structures \u2013 could dramatically improve the study of  cancer, viral infections and brain function.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The technique, electron microscopy (EM) of liquids, also may improve  our understanding of reactions in energy storage materials, which has  relevance for the development of improved batteries, and our  understanding of liquid phase processes such as corrosion and  electrochemical deposition.<\/p>\n<p>Thus say two pioneers in the field: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/labs\/dejongelab\">Niels de Jonge<\/a>, assistant professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/root\/vumc.php?site=MPB\">Molecular Physiology and Biophysics<\/a> at Vanderbilt University; and <a href=\"http:\/\/domino.research.ibm.com\/comm\/research_people.nsf\/pages\/fross.index.html\">Frances Ross<\/a>, a scientist at IBM\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watson.ibm.com\/general_info_ykt.shtml\">T.J. Watson Research Center<\/a> in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2011\/10\/liquid-em\/\">KEEP READING&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technique for imaging whole cells in liquid \u2013 with a nanometer resolution that brings into focus individual proteins and other intracellular structures \u2013 could dramatically improve the study of cancer, viral infections and brain function. The technique, electron microscopy (EM) of liquids, also may improve our understanding of reactions in energy storage materials,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3411,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-vinse-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}