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The 2018 correlative microscopy techniques roadmap

  • Developments in microscopy have been instrumental to progress in the life sciences, and many new techniques have been introduced and led to new discoveries throughout the last century. A wide and diverse range of methodologies is now available, including electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, small-angle x-ray scattering and multiple super-resolution fluorescence techniques, and each of these methods provides valuable read-outs to meet the demands set by the samples under study. Yet, the investigation of cell development requires a multi-parametric approach to address both the structure and spatio-temporal organization of organelles, and also the transduction of chemical signals and forces involved in cell–cell interactions. Although the microscopy technologies for observing each of these characteristics are well developed, none of them can offer read-out of all characteristics simultaneously, which limits the information content of a measurement. For example, while electron microscopy is able to disclose the structural layout of cells and the macromolecular arrangement of proteins, it cannot directly follow dynamics in living cells. The latter can be achieved with fluorescence microscopy which, however, requires labelling and lacks spatial resolution. A remedy is to combine and correlate different readouts from the same specimen, which opens new avenues to understand structure–function relations in biomedical research. At the same time, such correlative approaches pose new challenges concerning sample preparation, instrument stability, region of interest retrieval, and data analysis. Because the field of correlative microscopy is relatively young, the capabilities of the various approaches have yet to be fully explored, and uncertainties remain when considering the best choice of strategy and workflow for the correlative experiment. With this in mind, the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics presents a special roadmap on the correlative microscopy techniques, giving a comprehensive overview from various leading scientists in this field, via a collection of multiple short viewpoints.

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Document Type:Article
Author:Toshio AndoORCiD, Satya Prathyusha BhamidimarriORCiD, Niklas Brending, Lucy CollinsonORCiD, Niels de JongeORCiD, P. J. de PabloORCiD, Elke DebroyeORCiD, Christian EggelingORCiD, Christian Franck, Marco FritzscheORCiD, Hans Gerritsen, Ben N.G. GiepmansORCiD, Kai Grunewald, Johan Hofkens, Jacob P. HoogenboomORCiD, Kris P. F. Janssen, Kaufman Rainer, Judith Klumpermann, Nyoman KurniawanORCiD, Jana Kusch, Nalan LivORCiD, Viha Parekh, Diana B. PeckysORCiD, Florian RehfeldtORCiD, David C. Reutens, Maarten B.J. Roeffaers, Tim Salditt, Iwan A.T. Schaap, Ulrich S. Schwarz, Paul VerkadeORCiD, Michael W. Vogel, Richard Wagner, Mathias Winterhalter, Haifeng Yuan, Giovanni Zifarelli
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:291:415-2795
URL:http://stacks.iop.org/0022-3727/51/i=44/a=443001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aad055
ISSN:0022-3727
Parent Title (English):Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics
Volume:51
Issue:44
Pagenumber:443001
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2018
Release Date:2022/11/18
Impact:02.829 (2018)
Scientific Units:Innovative Electron Microscopy
Open Access:Open Access
Signature:INM 2018/114
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International