Communications Biology (Nov 2021)

Infrared nanoscopy and tomography of intracellular structures

  • Katerina Kanevche,
  • David J. Burr,
  • Dennis J. Nürnberg,
  • Pascal K. Hass,
  • Andreas Elsaesser,
  • Joachim Heberle

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02876-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Kanevche and colleagues present a combined imaging method employing scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy to visualize the internal structures of cells. Demonstrating their method on eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, they reveal chemically distinct regions of the cells.