LONDON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- An inverted microscope, a high-tech tool used in science labs at research centers all over the world, can cost upwards of $10,000. But when researchers at Brunel University London needed more than one to run multiple simultaneous tests, they considered a cheaper alternative -- a cheap USB microscope turned upside down.
Adam Lynch and his colleagues, who were attempting to study cell motility, needed inverted microscopes to automatically test multiple cell samples. But while Lynch needed the magnification offered by high-powered machines, he didn't need a high resolution image.