Current progress in expansion microscopy: chemical strategies and applications

G Wen, V Leen, T Rohand, M Sauer… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a newly developed super-resolution technique, allowing
visualization of biological targets at nanoscale resolution on conventional fluorescence …

Expansion microscopy: A chemical approach for super-resolution microscopy

Y Zhuang, X Shi - Current opinion in structural biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Super-resolution microscopy is a series of imaging techniques that bypass the diffraction
limit of resolution. Since the 1990s, optical approaches, such as single-molecular …

Magnify is a universal molecular anchoring strategy for expansion microscopy

A Klimas, BR Gallagher, P Wijesekara, S Fekir… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Expansion microscopy enables nanoimaging with conventional microscopes by physically
and isotropically magnifying preserved biological specimens embedded in a crosslinked …

Expanded vacuum-stable gels for multiplexed high-resolution spatial histopathology

Y Bai, B Zhu, JP Oliveria, BJ Cannon… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cellular organization and functions encompass multiple scales in vivo. Emerging high-plex
imaging technologies are limited in resolving subcellular biomolecular features. Expansion …

Single-shot 20-fold expansion microscopy

S Wang, TW Shin, HB Yoder, RB McMillan, H Su… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is in increasingly widespread use throughout biology because
its isotropic physical magnification enables nanoimaging on conventional microscopes. To …

Differential nanoscale organization of excitatory synapses onto excitatory vs. inhibitory neurons

PA Dharmasri, AD Levy… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
A key feature of excitatory synapses is the existence of subsynaptic protein nanoclusters
(NCs) whose precise alignment across the cleft in a transsynaptic nanocolumn influences …

Multiplexed expansion revealing for imaging multiprotein nanostructures in healthy and diseased brain

J Kang, ME Schroeder, Y Lee, C Kapoor, E Yu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Proteins work together in nanostructures in many physiological contexts and disease states.
We recently developed expansion revealing (ExR), which expands proteins away from each …

Improved immunostaining of nanostructures and cells in human brain specimens through expansion-mediated protein decrowding

PA Valdes, CC Yu, J Aronson, D Ghosh… - Science translational …, 2024 - science.org
Proteins are densely packed in cells and tissues, where they form complex nanostructures.
Expansion microscopy (ExM) variants have been used to separate proteins from each other …

Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria

A Sarfatis, Y Wang, N Twumasi-Ankrah, JR Moffitt - Science, 2025 - science.org
Single-cell decisions made in complex environments underlie many bacterial phenomena.
Image-based transcriptomics approaches offer an avenue to study such behaviors, yet these …

Expansion microscopy using a single anchor molecule for high-yield multiplexed imaging of proteins and RNAs

Y Cui, G Yang, DR Goodwin, CH O'Flanagan, A Sinha… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Expansion microscopy (ExM), by physically enlarging specimens in an isotropic fashion,
enables nanoimaging on standard light microscopes. Key to existing ExM protocols is the …