FoldScope

Wonder! I am an official and registered owner of the worlds smallest, chaepest, lightest and most fun microscope! Thanks a a lot Manu, Thanks a lot Prakash lab. You also should check our the Manu’s TED talk about global health and browse their decent webpage, in which all users can upload their explorations.

microcosmos.foldscope.com

For my part, I started exploring my surrounding and could see worms everywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsoKzJK5Xbs&feature=youtu.be#sthash.fTrcbc0p.dpuf
I also dug through my compost and found what looks like a honeycomb and probably found the first nematode which was isolated in the beautiful city of Weimar. The next mission is to actually go and find some iceworms and observe a phase transition in realtime. These awesome critters only survive ontop of glacier ice and dissolve when heated above a couple of degrees celsius. I wonder how their proteins must be designed to be functional at 0C. How do the proteins interact at `room’ temperature, at which they turn liquid? What can we learn about biology in general?