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Almost a century ago, a breakthrough in microscopy gave scientists an entirely new way to examine the inside of cells. Known as phase contrast, the technique made previously faint or nearly invisible cellular structures much easier to distinguish. Its importance was recognized with a Nobel Prize in 1953.
Now, physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have brought that same principle to electron microscopy, a technology capable of magnifying objects...
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