Super-resolution microscopy (SRM) is gaining popularity in biosciences; however, claims about optical resolution are contested and often misleading. In this Viewpoint, experts share their views on resolution and common trade-offs, such as labelling and post-processing, aiming to clarify them for biologists and facilitate deeper understanding and best use of SRM.

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The light-sheet fluorescence microscopy is an excellent tool for the investigation of large three dimensional microscopy samples at the cellular level, however, the ability to resolve features is strongly affected by the presence of scattering and aberrations. These effects are two fold in light-sheet microscopy, as the illumination path providing the optical sectioning and the fluorescence detection path are both affected by the aberrations in different ways. To overcome these difficulties, we have developed hybrid adaptive optical and computational microscopy techniques to remove the effect of the aberrations in both the excitation and the fluorescence paths of these microscopes.@en