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AI spots cell structures that humans can’t

Models can predict the location of cell structures from light-microscopy images alone, without the need for harmful fluorescence labelling.
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A cartoon human figure uses a computer to pick out cells in colour hidden within a camouflage pattern

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Susanne Rafelski and her colleagues had a deceptively simple goal. “We wanted to be able to label many different structures in the cell, but do live imaging,” says the quantitative cell biologist and deputy director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science in Seattle, Washington. “And we wanted to do it in 3D.”

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Nature 592, 154-155 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00812-7

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