Fei Chen, Microscopy Maven
Ever since 17th-century Dutch scientific pioneer Antonie van Leeuwenhoek used his primitive microscope to peer at a drop of lake water and discover bacteria, scientists have worked to improve microscopes to see finer and finer features in biological samples.
Fei Chen, a Schmidt Fellow at the Broad Institute, has now stood the paradigm on its head. His idea: To see smaller features, make the samples bigger!