Schematic of the experimental setup used to combine polarization microscopy with dark-field microscopy. Credit: IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy technique capable of improving the observation of living cells. The study, published in Optics Letters, paves the way for a more in-depth analysis of numerous biological processes without