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The microscope makers putting ever-larger biological samples under the spotlight

Microscopy has been a trade-off until now: the bigger the sample, the lower the resolution. But picking out cellular detail in mouse brains and more is becoming increasingly possible.
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In a sunny third-floor office at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, Philipp Keller is showing off the optics for his latest microscope. They’re not much to look at — yet.

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Nature 575, 715-717 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03632-y

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