Nanoscopy at 40 nm resolution!

Dear All

I will discuss a recent paper by Stefan Hell's group claiming a PSF fluorescence spot of 40 nm. Now they have started calling it "nanoscopy" instead of "microscopy" that I think is right terminology for the 21st century optical micronanoscopy.

Cheers

Shakil

Nature Methods - 5, 539 - 544 (2008)
Published online: 18 May 2008; | doi:10.1038/nmeth.1214

Spherical nanosized focal spot unravels the interior of cells

Roman Schmidt¹, Christian A Wurm¹, Stefan Jakobs¹, Johann Engelhardt², Alexander Egner¹ & Stefan W Hell^{1, 2}