At the Dubochet Center for imaging, atoms are made visible

Jacques Dubochet with one of 'his' Center's microscope. UNIL / Fabrice Ducrest - Fully operational for two weeks, the Dubochet Center for imaging was presented to the press on November 22. It promises considerable advances in biomedical research thanks to the precision of the images that its microscopes can obtain. "Imagine how an old man might feel when a Center like this is named after him.." The emotion could be heard, yesterday, in the voice of Jacques Dubochet. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was participating in the official launch of the Dubochet Center for Imaging (DCi), a joint platform of EPFL, the University of Lausanne and the University of Geneva. The Center has more than enough to put the Lake Geneva region on the world map of advanced imaging facilities. "We have here the best model of microscope that money can buy.