Superabsorbent Diaper Compound May Soup up Brain Cell Imaging (VIDEO)

NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

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Watch MIT scientists tell the story of expansion microscopy: a process that enlarges cell structures, allowing scientists to take nanoscale pictures of healthy and disease tissue throughout the body using common microscopes.

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Video courtesy of the The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, Cambridge.

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