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Although new super-resolution imaging techniques provide valuable biological insights, some applications, such as determining the organization of neural projections in the brain, are better served by comprehensive imaging of very large samples at lower resolution.

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  1. Narayanan Kasthuri and Jeff W. Lichtman are in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. jlichtman@mcb.harvard.edu and bobby.kasthuri@gmail.com

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