Lucy Collinson knew little about the machinery of cells when she started working in electron microscopy. But since 2006 she has been head of the Electron Microscopy Unit at Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute, in charge of helping 40 research groups to see cells of all sorts with clarity. In February, her team and the University of York, UK, won a ￡2-million (US$3-million) grantfrom funders including the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) to buy a state-of-the-art machine that can do both light and electron microscopy, enabling new sample preparation techniques.
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