joined Prakash’s lab as a graduate student. He teamed up with Prakash to design the $1 microscopes. “The first challenge was trying to get the ... and lens to reach the eye and magnify the sample.

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We’ve all likely seen the amazing images possible with a scanning electron microscope ... to open-source lab equipment that enables citizen science; we saw their pocket-sized thermal cycler ...