Advances in microscopy, computer vision and open source software are converging to usher in a new era of microscopes that control themselves.
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Pinkard, H., Waller, L. Microscopes are coming for your job. Nat Methods 19, 1175–1176 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01566-4
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