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Soft X-rays capture the dance of the organelles

A CT-like scan images what’s inside a live cell in 3D — including the interactions of its components.
Soft X-ray tomography combines rapid collection and high-resolution visualization to understand subcellular reorganization.

An X-ray-based imaging method unveils a cell’s substructures, including the nucleus, mitochondria and insulin vesicles (blue, magenta and yellow, respectively; artificially coloured). Credit: V. Loconte et al./Structure

An imaging technique that uses X-rays can reveal in 10 minutes not only the 3D structure inside a cell, but also how its organelles interact with each other1.

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Nature 602, 550 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00420-z

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  1. Loconte, V. et. al. Structure https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2022.01.006 (2022).

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