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.
Circa 38 anni fa, giocavamo con una tecnologia chiamata citometria a flusso nel mio laboratorio, sviluppata per la ricerca biomedica per studiare le cellule cancerose, ma noi la stavamo usando per un altro proposito, ovvero studiare il fitoplancton, ed è stata davvero utile.