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Celebrating optical nanoscopy

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The award of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry to the pioneers of various optical schemes capable of achieving super-resolution and single-molecule detection is recognition of a revolution in optical imaging.

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Figure 1: Super-resolution imaging of bacterial cells showing the strikingly organized distributions of cell components labelled with three different dyes: Nile red, indicating the cell surface (grey), eYFP, indicating the protein CreS (green) and PAmCherry1, indicating the protein PopZ (red).

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