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 cerca de 38 anos, estávamos brincando em meu laboratório com a tecnologia de citometria de fluxo que havia sido criada no meio biomédico para estudar células como as do câncer, mas nós estávamos usando-a com outro intuito, que era o estudo do fitoplâncton, e ela servia muito a esse propósito.