Seriously. Progress in microscopy hasn't slowed down at all. There was an Nobel prize given for optical super-resolution imaging recently. Cryoelectron tomograp

Seriously. Progress in microscopy hasn't slowed down at all. There was an Nobel prize given for optical super-resolution imaging recently. Cryoelectron tomography is insane: near Angstrom level resolution of 3D segments of cells. People are measuring the entire transcriptome of single cells using microscopy. Optical tweezers are allowing researchers to measure forces inside cells by literally grabbing intracellular structures with a laser and yanking them around. Progress in sequencing is also exciting, but don't discount microscopy!