IBM have been doing this stuff for years. Atomic Force Microscopy is another nano-scale method, currently with better resolution than this nano-MRI, so notihng new here. It is a leap ahead in terms of MRI imaging and especially for soft-sample imaging - as AFM cannot hold the integrity of the soft-samples as readily.

As for the comment on storage - these samples can only be of finite size and scanning topography will scale with current MRI technology so although its a higher resolution tech - the resulting images will be restricted to a minute area - no terabytes required, even with multi later analysis.

Im still waiting for IBM to release info about their new hard drive tech which is similar to the AFM/MRI tech but should pave the way for miniaturised multi tera-byte HDD's.

I think I remember reading about using MRI scanners on biochemicals for use in quantum computing. Maybe Im just wrong but that would really help. Just needs to be small enough!!!

hmmm... a new bandwidth challenge.. How do you get a Nanoscale MRI image to storage in a reasonable amount of time? These images are going to be huge to store, and move around. I would bet that each image file will be in the terabyte range. Here comes another wave of technologies to deal with things like this.