Researchers retrofit microscopes to take 3D images of cells in real-time

There's a limit to what you can learn about cells from 2D pictures, but creating 3D images is a time-intensive process. Now, scientists from UT Southwestern have developed a new "simple and cost-effective" device capable of capturing multi-angle photos that can be retrofitted onto existing lab microscopes. The team say their solution -- which involves inserting a unit of two rotating mirrors in front of a microscope's camera -- is 100 times faster than converting images from 2D to 3D. Currently,...