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A team led by Raju Tomer at Columbia University has created a new design for microscopes and microscope lenses that could push 3D tissue imaging beyond state-of-the-art systems while drastically cutting costs and complexity.
Columbia University
Who
Raju Tomer, Jack Glaser, Hanina Hibshoosh, Rene Hen, Christopher Makinson, Maria Tosches, Sudha Guttikonda, Giacomo Gattoni, Cheng Gong, Pauline Affatato, Daniel De La Cruz
What
A team led by Raju Tomer at Columbia University has created a new design for microscopes and microscope lenses that could push 3D tissue imaging beyond state-of-the-art systems while drastically cutting costs and complexity.
When
Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:36:00 GMT · 3h 5m ago
Where
Columbia University ·
Why
The new design, HySIL, addresses the bottleneck in imaging tissues easily and at a large scale caused by existing microscope lenses, which were either expensive with limited depth or cheaper but produced blurred images.
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This new hybrid lens design could make high-resolution 3D tissue imaging more accessible and affordable globally, helping to advance medical research, disease diagnosis, and AI model training in various settings, including those with limited resources. It could transform pathology by allowing examination of entire tissue architectures instead of just cross-sections.
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