Attending the workshop at GGDSD College, Chandigarh along with my friends was a wonderful experience for me and came to know about foldscope, which I have never heard before. Not from the medical science background, I have observed a prepared slide of
 
 Dracaena,
 
 a monocot.   I have attached a mobile phone with it and peeped into the plant cellular world and captured some gorgeous images. It was like going back to my school biology lab.

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 <img alt="Dracaena 1" class="size-medium wp-image-41090 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="41090" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1528658324","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"250","shutter_speed":"0.05","title":"","orientation":"6"}' data-image-title="Dracaena 1" data-recalc-dims="1" height="254" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_41078/Dracaena-1.jpg" width="300"/>
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 Scattered vascular bundles
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 <img alt="Dracaena 2" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-41091 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="41091" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1528658415","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"320","shutter_speed":"0.05","title":"","orientation":"6"}' data-image-title="Dracaena 2" data-recalc-dims="1" height="284" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_41078/Dracaena-2.jpg" width="300"/>

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 <img alt="Dracaena 5" class="size-medium wp-image-41094 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="41094" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1528658940","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.03030303030303","title":"","orientation":"6"}' data-image-title="Dracaena 5" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_41078/Dracaena-5.jpg" width="210"/>
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 Enlarged view
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 <img alt="Dracaena 3" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-41092 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="41092" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1528658709","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"64","shutter_speed":"0.03030303030303","title":"","orientation":"6"}' data-image-title="Dracaena 3" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_41078/Dracaena-3.jpg" width="279"/>
 <img alt="Dracaena 4" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-41093 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="41093" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 5s","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1528658728","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.15","iso":"64","shutter_speed":"0.03030303030303","title":"","orientation":"6"}' data-image-title="Dracaena 4" data-recalc-dims="1" height="297" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_41078/Dracaena-4.jpg" width="300"/>

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