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A triple threat to single molecules

Three single-molecule methods promise to increase the time resolution of experiments, to allow better access to sparsely populated molecular states and to permit combinatorial high-throughput analysis.

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Figure 1: Three improved single-molecule techniques.

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Gruebele, M. A triple threat to single molecules. Nat Methods 8, 213–215 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0311-213

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