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How the sum of its parts gets greater than the whole

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A single biomolecule carries information that becomes lost in an ensemble average. Methodological developments in imaging are now making it easier to access this hidden information in a live-cell context.

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Figure 1: Advantages of single-molecule imaging over ensemble imaging.

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