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Forward to a Friend The Royal Society February 2012 Events Newsletter

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Welcome to the Royal Society's monthly events newsletter which contains information on the Royal Society's public programme of evening lectures in the coming months as well as news on some of our other activities.

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How new science is transforming the optical microscope The 2012 Leeuwenhoek Lecture by Dr Brad Amos FRS 13 February 2012, 6.30pm-7.30pm The Royal Society, London

There are two rules for making an optical microscope; the lenses must be small and they must capture light from the object over as wide an angle as possible. This was understood a century ago, however, lasers, computers and chemically-specific labels have recently produced an explosion of development. A new method will be described, which can show anatomy at the scale of micrometres and subcellular detail in the same image of a specimen such as a mouse embryo. This is the first microscope system to disobey the ‘small lens’ rule. Brad Amos is an Emeritus Research Group Leader in the MRC Lab of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and a Visiting Scientist in the University of Strathclyde.

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