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Tracking nanoscopic motion with minima of light

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Two papers in Science demonstrate tracking of the stepping motion of the kinesin motor protein with nanometric spatial precision and sub-millisecond temporal resolution by using MINFLUX, a highly photon-efficient single-molecule localization technique.

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Fig. 1: Localizing molecules using a minimum of light.

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    Fernando D. Stefani

  2. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Física, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Stefani, F.D. Tracking nanoscopic motion with minima of light. Nat. Photon. 17, 552–553 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01239-4

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