DIY Fluorescence Microscope

Before the observation of fluorescent process was not possible in the hacker space. It was thus decided that transforming one of the microscope into a fluorescent microscope would be cool.

Results

Fluorescence is visible through the Raspberry Pi Camera. An idea then is to implement a code to overlay the picture of the cell and the fluorescent picture. The goal of this overlay would be to confirm that the fluorescence comes from the nucleus.

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  Phase

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  GFP

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  Overlay

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  Phase

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  GFP

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  Overlay