Two young EPFL scientists have developed a device that can
create 3D images of living cells and track their reaction to various stimuli
without the use of contrast dyes or fluorophores.
In the world of microscopy, this advance is almost
comparable to the leap from photography to live television. Two young EPFL
researchers, Yann Cotte and Fatih Toy, have designed a device that combines
holographic microscopy and computational image processing to observe living
biological tissues at the nanoscale. Their research is being done under the
supervision of Christian Depeursinge, head of the Microvision and
Microdiagnostics Group in EPFL’s School of Engineering.