Nature Milestones in Light Microscopy is published today, 1 October 2009. Nature Milestones in Light Microscopy is a collaboration from Nature Methods, Nature Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, focusing on ground-breaking advances in light microscopy research. The field of light microscopy has revolutionized our understanding of cell biology and is continuing as new imaging tools and techniques are developed. The Nature Milestones in Light Microscopy supplement contains a series of short articles, called Milestones, presenting key developments in the field, written by editors from the Nature Publishing Group. In addition, selected content from Nature Milestones in Light Microscopy are freely available online.

Print copies of the supplement will be available at the NPG stand at the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) conference in October 2009 and the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) conference in December 2009.

Also of interest is Nature‘s recent News special on microscopy, consisting of a slideshow, News Features, opinion and various other articles. Microscopes are biologists’ window to life — and advances in microscopy over recent years are revealing some breathtaking new views. The Nature special profiles five microscopes that are changing the ways that researchers see the world, and examines the challenges involved in collecting and interpreting the microscopic image.