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   Image: Ella Maru Studio, Credit: Ruixuan Guo and Boyden Lab Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for imaging biological samples with accuracy at the scale of 10 nanometers — which should enable them to image viruses and potentially even single biomolecules, the researchers say.   The new technique builds…

  Fluorescent imaging technique simultaneously captures different signal types from multiple locations in a live cell.        Within a single cell, thousands of molecules, such as proteins, ions, and other signaling molecules, work together to perform all kinds of functions — absorbing nutrients, storing memories, and differentiating into specific tissues, among many others.…

Computational method for screening drug compounds can help predict which ones will work best against tuberculosis or other diseases. Machine learning is a computational tool used by many biologists to analyze huge amounts of data, helping them to identify potential new drugs. MIT researchers have now incorporated a new feature into these types of machine-learning…