Cutting-edge microscopes produce fascinating images, with an
ever-increasing speed and resolution. The side-effect of this advance: Storing
and processing data becomes more and more a challenge since vast amounts of
data accumulate - a microscope of the latest generation can easily generate 25
terabytes a day. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell
Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden now trained their microscopes to
process the images whilst taking them. So it's the results, not the raw data,
that are stored. This reduces the amount of data enormously and makes the
further analysis way easier.