Plankton regularly travel vast distances up and down in the ocean. A water-filled hamster wheel with glass windows now enables detailed microscopic lab observations of individual aquatic microorganisms during their vertical migrations.
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Taute, K.M. Plankton in a hamster wheel. Nat Methods 17, 965–966 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-020-0939-0
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