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Two in one technique for biological imaging - A UK based team has combined two methods into a new technique to investigate cell-substrate interactions in biomedical research. The new technique, correlative light-ion microscopy (CLIM), combines both ion and fluorescence microscopy to obtain topographical and biochemical information for the same area of a sample. Reference: S Bertazzo et al, Nanoscale, 4, 2851 (DOI: 10.1039/c2nr30431g)