Scientists could save thousands of dollars by using Inverted high-magnification microscope developed by university’s College of Health and Life Sciences.

Scientists could save thousands of dollars by using Inverted high-magnification microscope developed by university’s College of Health and Life Sciences.

Inverted high-magnification microscope are very costly which add up to the cost of diagnosing, Adam Lynch, from the university’s College of Health and Life Sciences, created his own inverted microscope by adapting a cheap instrument he bought online to save himself time and money.

The tool is used to measure cell motility – how fast cells move from one place to another – but the high-quality equipment, used to automatically test multiple samples, can stretch to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Now Adam has a cut-price version for a study to understand if a snail’s immune system responds to chemical pollutants present in the water, which might influence the levels of transmission of Schistosome parasites from snails to humans. The team at Brunel needed the inverted microscope to see whether immune cell behavior  was affected by polluted water. But they needed more than one machine to be able to run multiple tests.

 

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