How does Stanford's Nobel winner illuminate dark cells, revealing life and death?
Friday, October 10, 2014 - 13:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Molecules are busy actors on the cellular stage, gathering and dancing to create life and trigger death. But they had been too tiny to see in action, a frustrating scientific impasse - until three scientists, including Stanford University's William E. Moerner, found techniques to peer deeply into cells, inventions that on Wednesday were honored with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.