Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 4, SS16–SS21 (2003)

Opinion: Imagining imaging's future

Imaging specific molecules and their interactions in space and time will be essential to understand how genomes create cells, how cells constitute organisms and how errant cells cause disease. Molecular imaging must be extended and applied from nanometre to metre scales and from milliseconds to days. This quest will require input from physics, chemistry, and the genetics and biochemistry of diverse organisms with useful talents.

Roger Y. Tsien
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Pharmacology and of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0647, USA.
email: rtsien@ucsd.edu

Published online: 1 September 2003
doi:10.1038/nrm1196