This emerged in the lab of MIT biologist Leonard Guarente, whose team spent years counting thousands of yeast cells under a microscope.

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The extreme microscope will enable a number of subjective and time-consuming tasks such as counting the number of cells staining positive for a biomarker or locating cells infected with a parasite like malaria, to be replaced by highly repeatable and robust computer vision applications.

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