{"id":111523,"date":"2020-08-18T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/shining-light-into-the-dark-new-discovery-makes-microscopic-imaging-possible-in-dark-conditions"},"modified":"2020-08-18T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T15:51:00","slug":"shining-light-into-the-dark-new-discovery-makes-microscopic-imaging-possible-in-dark-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/shining-light-into-the-dark-new-discovery-makes-microscopic-imaging-possible-in-dark-conditions","title":{"rendered":"Shining light into the dark: New discovery makes microscopic imaging possible in dark conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shining-light-into-the-dark-new-discovery-makes-microscopic-imaging-possible-in-dark-conditions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Curtin University researchers have discovered a new way to more accurately analyze microscopic samples by essentially making them glow in the dark through the use of chemically luminescent molecules.<\/p>\n<p>Lead researcher Dr. Yan Vogel from the School of Molecular and Life Sciences said current methods of microscopic imaging rely on fluorescence, which means a light needs to be shining on the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sample\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sample<\/a> while it is being analyzed. While this method is effective, it also has some drawbacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost biological cells and chemicals generally do not like exposure to light because it can destroy things\u2014similar to how certain plastics lose their colors after prolonged sun exposure, or how our skin can get sunburned,\u201d Dr. Vogel said. \u201cThe light that shines on the samples is often too damaging for the living specimens and can be too invasive, interfering with the biochemical process and potentially limiting the study and scientists\u2019 understanding of the living organisms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin University researchers have discovered a new way to more accurately analyze microscopic samples by essentially making them glow in the dark through the use of chemically luminescent molecules. Lead researcher Dr. Yan Vogel from the School of Molecular and Life Sciences said current methods of microscopic imaging rely on fluorescence, which means a light [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}