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Deep-learning AI technique helps scientists see more clearly inside the cell

A new imaging restoration technique using deep learning offers scientists a higher-resolution, less-blurry, less-noisy view of the interior of cells.

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You’re looking at two versions of the same video of a moment in a single cell, captured under a powerful microscope. The red and yellow structures are mitochondria, and the inset magnified in the bottom left hand corner in each view captures a mitochondrion dividing.

The view on the left shows the raw data as it came off the microscope; you might

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