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New instruments are needed to realize the potential of quantitative and systematic imaging of living samples. But what would such a microscope look like?

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We thank R. Power and G. Shah for their thoughtful comments on this manuscript.

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  1. Nico Scherf and Jan Huisken are at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.,

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  2. Nico Scherf is also affiliated with the Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.,

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Scherf, N., Huisken, J. The smart and gentle microscope. Nat Biotechnol 33, 815–818 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3310

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