Method developed at UT Arlington allows quantitative nanoscopic imaging through silicon

A team of scientists from The University of Texas at Arlington  and MIT  has figured out how to quantitatively observe cellular processes taking place on so-called “lab on a chip” devices in a silicon environment. The new technology will be useful in drug development as well as disease diagnosis, researchers say. In a paper published in Nature’s online journal Scientific Reports , the team said it overcame past limitations on quantitative microscopy through an opaque media by working with a new combination