Spiderwort – incredibly beautiful single cells

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I am a faculty at Stanford and run the Prakash Lab at Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. Foldscope community is at the heart of our Frugal Science movement - and I can not tell you how proud I am of this community and grassroots movement. Find our work here: http://prakashlab.stanford.edu

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this is such a beautiful flower; just Wonderful to have the chance to foldscope this. What do these cells do? What is the critical pattern for?
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Manu

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