Nobel Prize-winning discovery will better train scientists' eyes

Ever since mankind's first attempts to understand what we are made of, we have tried to see and study small things, things not visible to the naked eye. Using magnifying lenses, scientists quickly realized that we are composed of cells, and that cells are composed of even smaller parts. Today, much of our knowledge on how cells function is based on microscopic observations. Three scientists recently received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of microscopy approaches, allowing to observe molecules in cells in even more detail. Stefan Hell of Germany and Eric Betzig and William Moerner of the United States share the prize for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy."

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