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Ambitious efforts are underway to map the presence and abundance of proteins in organs and tissues of the human body at the scale of single cells. But existing imaging methods are limited in their performance, their accessibility to researchers, or both. Now, researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biological Engineering and Harvard Medical School have developed a DNA-nanotechnology-based approach that enables the visualization of many proteins in the same sample.
