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Re:Leonard Rome's lab discovered an odd component of cells i... by Bluestein on Sunday July 07, 2024 @07:59AM (#40896988)
>;they haven't been discovered because staining techniques don't make them visible?

To that point, there was a recent article here (that, sadly went mostly unnoticed), about Polish scientists finding novel applicability of gold particles of a certain shape in cancer treatment ...

... but crucial and structural to their findings (and salient about the article, I thought) was the use of a novel kind of microscopy and procedure that enabled the discovery itself. Worth reading ...

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Re:Leonard Rome's lab discovered an odd component of cells i... by Bluestein on Sunday July 07, 2024 @06:05PM (#40900833)
Found the article. Interesting:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819854

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Re:Leonard Rome's lab discovered an odd component of cells i... by ahazred8ta on Monday July 08, 2024 @02:32AM (#40903052)
Harold Edgerton was a mechanical engineer trying to analyze a vibrating drive shaft. He finally took strobe photos of it vibrating. His advisor told him, never mind the drive shaft, start working on strobe photography.
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