Microscopy is an essential tool in many fields of science and medicine. However, many groups have limited access to this technology due to its cost and fragility.
Now, researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Münster have succeeded in building a high-resolution microscope using nothing more than children’s plastic building bricks and affordable parts from a mobile phone.
They then went on to show that children aged 9-13 had significantly increased understanding of microscopy after constructing and working with the LEGO microscope. Their results were published in The Biophysicist. [Read more…] about High-resolution microscope built from LEGO and bits of phone
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