{"id":244046,"date":"2026-09-14T21:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/researchers-hope-powerful-new-microscope-will-reveal-root-cause-of-incurable-bowel-disease"},"modified":"2026-09-14T21:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:11:26","slug":"researchers-hope-powerful-new-microscope-will-reveal-root-cause-of-incurable-bowel-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/researchers-hope-powerful-new-microscope-will-reveal-root-cause-of-incurable-bowel-disease","title":{"rendered":"Researchers hope powerful new microscope will reveal \u2018root cause\u2019 of incurable bowel disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-hope-powerful-new-microscope-will-reveal-root-cause-of-incurable-bowel-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith IBD, and with other many diseases that we collaborate with other groups to study, there [are] some treatments, but maybe those treatments still are not maybe the best or the most targeted that we can do because we \u2026 fundamentally don\u2019t understand the disease fully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With its black casing, grey hoses and a plethora of wires, the microscope is remarkably unobtrusive.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this is no run-of-the-mill bit of tech: the microscope operates at 10 times the resolution of conventional light microscopy, allowing researchers to see the details down to just 20nm in size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWith IBD, and with other many diseases that we collaborate with other groups to study, there [are] some treatments, but maybe those treatments still are not maybe the best or the most targeted that we can do because we \u2026 fundamentally don\u2019t understand the disease fully.\u201d With its black casing, grey hoses and a plethora [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244046","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}