{"id":232439,"date":"2026-03-03T01:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/smart-fluorescent-molecules-provide-cheaper-path-to-sharper-microscopy-images"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:25:53","slug":"smart-fluorescent-molecules-provide-cheaper-path-to-sharper-microscopy-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/smart-fluorescent-molecules-provide-cheaper-path-to-sharper-microscopy-images","title":{"rendered":"Smart fluorescent molecules provide cheaper path to sharper microscopy images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-fluorescent-molecules-provide-cheaper-path-to-sharper-microscopy-images2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multiphoton microscopy is used in biomedical research to study cells and tissues. Today, so-called two-photon microscopy is used to study processes within cells, but the technique has limitations in terms of image resolution. Four-photon microscopy provides images with higher resolution. However, such instruments are very expensive and, when studying biological material, the powerful laser light required can damage samples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this project, we have developed molecules to visualize molecular-level details and monitor processes using the more common two-photon microscopy technique. These molecules have the capacity to achieve higher resolution than with four-photon microscopy, although two-photon microscopy is used,\u201d says the project coordinator Joakim Andr\u00e9asson, Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the long term, results from studies of this kind may provide new insights into diseases, pharmaceuticals and the very smallest building blocks of life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiphoton microscopy is used in biomedical research to study cells and tissues. Today, so-called two-photon microscopy is used to study processes within cells, but the technique has limitations in terms of image resolution. Four-photon microscopy provides images with higher resolution. However, such instruments are very expensive and, when studying biological material, the powerful laser light [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232439","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=232439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}