{"id":118898,"date":"2021-01-26T16:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T00:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/discovery-makes-the-invisible-visible"},"modified":"2021-01-26T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T00:22:27","slug":"discovery-makes-the-invisible-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/discovery-makes-the-invisible-visible","title":{"rendered":"Discovery makes the invisible visible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-makes-the-invisible-visible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian scientists have discovered a new way to analyze microscopic cells, tissues and other transparent specimens, through the improvement of an almost 100-year-old imaging technique.<\/p>\n<p>La Trobe University researchers have led a four-year collaboration to make \u201cthe invisible visible\u201d by using custom-designed nanomaterials to enhance the sensitivity of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/phase+contrast+microscopy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">phase contrast microscopy<\/a>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/imaging+technique\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">imaging technique<\/a> commonly used by scientists to study biological specimens.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, detailed in <i>Nature Photonics<\/i>, will benefit a broad range of researchers and has the potential to advance research into the understanding and detection of disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian scientists have discovered a new way to analyze microscopic cells, tissues and other transparent specimens, through the improvement of an almost 100-year-old imaging technique. La Trobe University researchers have led a four-year collaboration to make \u201cthe invisible visible\u201d by using custom-designed nanomaterials to enhance the sensitivity of phase contrast microscopy, an imaging technique commonly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118898","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}