After a long period of measured development and a recent surge of technical advances driven by physicists, super-resolution fluorescence microscopy emerged in 2008 as a powerful tool for biologists. Kelly Rae Chi reports.
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Chi, K. Super-resolution microscopy: breaking the limits. Nat Methods 6, 15–18 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.f.234
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