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In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

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staplung · 1790528104 · focus · HN ↗
If you have a decent microscope and want to work on some citizen science that's directly related to the research in this article: <a href="https://www.vanettenlab.org/paulinella-consortium" rel="nofollow">https://www.vanettenlab.org/paulinella-consortium
1. deadbabe · 1790533489 · focus · HN ↗
  What is a “decent microscope”?
  1. adolph · 1790606591 · focus · HN ↗
    In one of the papers:
    The samples were transported to the lab and observed at 100 to 400X magnification using an inverted microscope (IX51, Olympus, Tokyo, Japan).
    A source for inexpensive high-quality equipment of questionable working order is whatever auction site your local hospital system uses to dispose of excess equipment.

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