SAN JOSE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- April 22, 2007 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that researchers at its Almaden Research Center have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to visualize nanoscale objects. This technique brings MRI capability to the nanoscale level for the first time and represents a major milestone in the quest to build a microscope that could “see” individual atoms in three dimensions.