About 38 years ago, we were playing around with a technology in my lab called flow cytometry that was developed for biomedical research for studying cells like cancer cells, but it turns out we were using it for this off-label purpose which was to study phytoplankton, and it was beautifully suited to do that.
Há uns 38 anos, usávamos no meu laboratório uma tecnologia chamada citometria de fluxo que fora desenvolvida para investigação biomédica para estudar células cancerosas mas aconteceu que estávamos a usá-la para um objetivo diferente que era estudar o fitoplâncton. Servia maravilhosamente para isso,