Painting the molecular canvas in super-resolution

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(Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research)

Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard Medical School have developed a method that combines the team's DNA-powered imaging technology with a single-molecule labeling strategy at a desired location within synthetic nanostructures or intact cells. This approach could allow researchers to stimulate or inhibit the functions of individual molecules in real time and with very high resolution.