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In toto imaging of living embryos has now become much faster. Light-sheet illumination and fluorescence detection with four objective lenses provide complete coverage of large samples in a snap.

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Figure 1: Microscopes with multiple objective lenses provide complementary views of the same sample for in toto imaging and real-time developmental biology studies.

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Weber, M., Huisken, J. Omnidirectional microscopy. Nat Methods 9, 656–657 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2022

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