Bee sting in the hand

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Manu Prakash

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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In Copenhagen, I got a chance to go to dinner at Dr Dino Ott’s – a physicist trained at Niels Bohr Institute, an old visiting student and a dear friend. His wife Ana and son joined dinner. Dino visited the lab several years ago when we were building/designing foldscope; and engaged in many parts of the design and development. So, it was really fun to see him in Copenhagen – and specially see his little foldscope lab upstairs in the attic.
He realized he happens to have been stung by a bee a couple of days ago – and the stinger my still be in his hand. So began a little exploration of we could actually watch the stinger – and maybe immune cells that might accumulate around a simple wound. So he pulled a tweezer – took a little piece of the skin and we foldscoped it. The results are below.
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Dino and Ana: Thanks for hosting me and Chew – it was an incredible trip and meeting both of you and the little one – all together meant the world to me.
Keep exploring.
Cheers
Manu

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