Eric Betzig, new Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute faculty member who will start as Professor of Physics and MCB at UC Berkeley this summer, has combined his earlier developments in lattice light-sheet microscopy and adaptive optics into a new microscope system. In the video below, you can see immune cell migration in the inner ear of a live zebrafish embryo, demonstrating the power and beauty of this approach.
Additional Information
- Read the research article just published in Science, “Observing the cell in its native state: Imaging subcellular dynamics in multicellular organisms.”
- Read the Nature News article, “Cutting-edge microscope spies on living cells inside the body.”
- Read the Berkeley News press release about new faculty members Eric Betzig and Na Ji, “Nobel Prize winner to join UC Berkeley faculty.”