Combination of physical tissue expansion and super-resolution radial fluctuations achieves nanoscale resolution in pathology specimens with LED-based widefield microscopy.
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Gallagher, B.R., Zhao, Y. Imaging pathology goes nanoscale with a low-cost strategy. Nat. Nanotechnol. 18, 324–325 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01318-1
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