Microscopy pioneer wins “Breakthrough” award. Harvard University biophysicist Xiaowei Zhuang has won the prestigious Breakthrough Prize, which is awarded to various pioneers in the life sciences, physics, and mathematics, for her work in microscopy. I’ll leave it to smarter folks to explain the precise nature of her work—but here are some its implications, according to Nature: “The technique has led to a slew of discoveries. Among them, Zhuang’s team has used STORM to peer at the molecules just underneath the membrane of neurons, and discovered that the cytoskeleton—a cell’s structural framework—consists of repeating elements… She has since developed another imaging technique, and aims eventually to create a “Google Map of every cell in our body — especially in the brain.” (Nature)
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