Time-Lapse: Students Build Microscope in 4 Minutes

By IRP Staff Blogger

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

As part of a microscopy course at the National Center For Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India, Dr. Hari Shroff and Dr. Abhishek Kumar of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering's (NIBIB) IRP led a team of students in building a dual-view selective plane illumination microscope (diSPIM). It took them about eight hours to complete, but you can view the whole process in just four minutes in the timelapse video below:

Read more about Dr. Shroff’s cutting-edge research in "Ambitions of a Tool-Maker" and the benefits of the diSPIM technique (external link).

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