Introduction

STORM or Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy is an optical technique developed at the laboratory of Xiaowei Zhuang at Harvard University, and it allows the imaging of biological samples with sub-diffraction limit resolution.

Optical microscopy done using visible light has been an incredibly powerful tool over the course of human history, and it has strengthened the field of biology by complying with the motto "Seeing is Believing'. But as the end of the 19th century approached, Ernst Abbe published a seminal paper on the achievable resolution in an optical setup, and how it was determined by the wavelength