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‘Democracy in microscopy’: cheap light microscope delivers super-resolution images

Technique pushes the instruments to beat the resolving power of multi-million-dollar machines.
  1. Ewen Callaway
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When Ali Shaib was doing his master’s degree at the Lebanese University in Beirut, he spent several weeks on a waiting list and visited a different campus to take a few images on a costly microscope, something scholars in richer countries took for granted.

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Nature 616, 417-418 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01267-8

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  1. Shaib, A. H. et al. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.03.502284 (2023).

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