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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Brameshuber, M., Schütz, G. How the sum of its parts gets greater than the whole. Nat Methods 5, 133–134 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0208-133
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