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PhD student fits inexpensive microscope and save £ 100,000

26 November 2014 Last updated at 0.07 clock GMT

A PhD student at Brunel University in London has £ 100,000 saved from the "piracy" of his own team.

Adam Lynch has its own by customizing a cheap instrument, created invested bought online microscope.

Adam has a USB microscope that could have purchased at a hobby shop are mounted upside down on a table and, much more expensive to produce the same images as formally equivalent.

It is estimated that the cost of the invention around £ 160 but not patented because she believes that science be open source.

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