By Wendy Plump
Department of Chemistry
In a funding venture that could be transformational for imaging single molecules within a cell, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a $3.4M grant to a collaboration between Princeton’s Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biology.
The four-year grant supports the development of a new microscope that will enable researchers unprecedented access to the chemical composition and distribution of small molecules within cells, at nanometer resolution.
At present, there is no technology capable of achieving high-resolution imaging and chemical species identification within a cell.