infocus #69 March 2023 The Expansion Microscopy User Group: Cultivating a new scientific community

Having first been put forward as a sample preparation tool in 2015, expansion microscopy is something of a ‘new kid on the block’ in scientific research.

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The process, involving the physical enlargement of a biological sample by the introduction of a polymer network - thereby enabling the analysis of small structures with standard microscopes – has numerous applications in medical research and other fields.

Aware of its enormous potential, scientists across the world are now experimenting with the technique. But how can this growing body of knowledge be harnessed effectively?, and how to spread
best practice - alerting budding expansion microscopists to the many pitfalls of the preparation process along the way?

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