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A Different Mindset

  By Tim Friend and Jennifer Michalowski
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To most people, a microscope is a microscope—a device for revealing structures too small to see with the naked eye. But to some, a microscope or any other tool is a collection of parts that might be reconfigured to do its designated task better, or perhaps accomplish something else entirely.

Their world is a collage of potentially useful bits and pieces. By shuffling the pieces and fitting them together in inventive ways, they come up with new tools—many of which are redefining the limits of biological research.

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