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If there's one thing you can be certain of it's that for the discovery of any fact, however obscure or trivial seeming, somewhere there is a scientist who is ex
by autoexec 4y ago
If there's one thing you can be certain of it's that for the discovery of any fact, however obscure or trivial seeming, somewhere there is a scientist who is extremely excited about it. I'm sure there are a lot of tardigrade fans out there who are thrilled by this.
> “I’ll never forget New Year’s Day 2019, when I received an email from Tomomi Nakano, another author of the paper. She had been working late trying to see the condensation of CAHS proteins and observed the first CAHS filament networks in human cultured cells. I was astonished at seeing such clearly defined microscopic images of these. It was the first time I had seen such a thing. It was a very happy new year indeed!”
I was likely either still drinking or sleeping it off while others were working away and emailing colleagues about fascinating discoveries.
- dekhn 4y agoI have a bit of a tardigrade obsession- so much so that I built my own motorized microscope (far cheaper than scientists use) and trained an object detector so I can track individual tardigrades as they move around a large area. Eventually a friend who knows one of the world's leading tardigrade researchers and introduced me and now we have a plan to do some more experiments using the tech I built. It takes up many late evenings but the resulting imagery is indeed fascinating- I managed to image tardigrades egg grow and hatch in realtime.