New Microscope Gives Researchers 3D 'omniscience'

A new microscope invented by scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus will let researchers use a thin sheet of light--similar to that used in supermarket bar-code scanners--to peer inside single living cells, revealing the three-dimensional shapes of cellular landmarks in unprecedented detail.

The folks at Howard Hughes are very excited about this research tool, they are claiming it brings them nothing less than omniscience. "In looking at living systems, you want to be