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New fluorescent probes for super-resolution imaging

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Fatigue-resistant, photoswitchable fluorescent proteins facilitate sub-diffraction-limit imaging of living cells with low light intensity.

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Figure 1: Fatigue-resistant photoswitchable fluorescent proteins enable RESOLFT imaging of living cells.

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  1. Joshua C. Vaughan and Xiaowei Zhuang are at Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,

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