Nobel Prize-Winning Techniques Help Resolve Imaging Challenge
ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2022 — Using a technique that was recently awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry, researchers at Cornell University used expansion microscopy to study lipids, the water-repellent, dynamic components that comprise the walls of cells and organelles. The microscopy technique developed at Cornell, called Lipid Expansion Microscopy (LExM), will enable closer study of biological membranes, which are the site of critical cell signaling and nutrient exchange. These processes, if disrupted, can lead