Multiphoton confocal microscope

光学显微镜的最新发展使现代分子和细胞生物学发生了革命性的变化。显微镜硬件和软件的巨大进步，以及用于标记选定细胞成分的荧光标记的范围，现在提供了新的和令人兴奋的机会来定位和确定离子和分子的功能，不仅在保存的样品中，而且最令人兴奋的是，在活细胞中。提出的多光子共聚焦显微镜将使堪培拉的研究人员能够获得活细胞和组织中静态和运动成分的高质量图像，并将促进发现有助于我们理解和控制植物和动物的发育和疾病的新知识。

Recent developments in light microscopy have revolutionised modern molecular and cellular biology. Dramatic improvements in microscope hardware and software and in the range of fluorescent markers used to tag selected cellular components now provide new and exciting opportunities to localise and determine the function of ions and molecules not only in preserved samples but also, most excitingly, in living cells. The proposed multiphoton confocal microscope will allow researchers in Canberra to obtain high quality images of static and moving components in living cells and tissues and will facilitate the discovery of new knowledge that contributes to our understanding and control of development and disease in both plants and animals.