• Question: @Ian what is the most interesting thing you have seen through a microsope

    Asked by to Ian on 19 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Ian Hands-Portman answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      I still think it’s that octopus thing you can see on my profile – too small to be a cell, just right to be a virus but noone has ever seen anything like it and the worlds leading experts can’t figure out what it is. One day I’ll figure it out..

      In general though, the most interesting thing is whatever new sample I’ve got to work with – I like new projects.

      Noone ever asks about the most boring thing! That was four days of looking at dog hair to see if we could identify breed from the hair under the electron microscope – we can’t, noone can and these day’s they just check for the DNA…

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