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A spiraled diatom with spines.
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The Ocean Under the Microscope: Images from Nikon Small World

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Hagfish Slime Thread
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Spin Hagfish Slime into Silk

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Red Algae
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Branching Red Algae

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Deep-sea Copepod Head
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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up

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Tardigrade Under the Microscope
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Psychedelic Tardigrade

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"Barely a room onboard escaped being turned into a part of the sequencing laboratory," wrote Rob Edwards in a blog post about doing genomic sequencing at sea.
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Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment

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Cancer cells treated with discodermolide, a chemical from a sponge found on deep-sea coral reefs.
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Treated Cancer Cells

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