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Peering into cells at high resolution just got easier

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Light-sheet fluorescence microscopes are making it possible to follow subcellular dynamics with unprecedented detail, but they are complex to build and maintain. A new method that can generate arbitrary light sheets provides much-needed simplicity and additional versatility.

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Fig. 1: Field synthesis can generate arbitrary light sheets, including dithered lattice light sheets.

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Forero-Shelton, M. Peering into cells at high resolution just got easier. Nat Methods 16, 293–294 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-019-0373-3

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