My boss [conditionally] accepted my proposal to try out a new method for super high resolution (a few nanometers lateral resolution) detection of molecules in biological samples.
If my idea actually works, this could be a super useful technique for precisely detecting the exact location of receptors within biological samples.
(but, it does hold a strong chance at not working how I believe it should... still, let's think positive eh?)
I have been thinking about this for a while now, but not wanted to ask my boss for permission till I had some literature to back up my ideas, I found a very nice paper this morning and he thought "it is at least worth a try, if it fails it isn't too much time wasted".