On its first deployment to a DHAB halocline, SID-ISMS collected water and fixed (preserved) the cells in it. Back on the ship, Maria Pachiadaki stained the cells with DAPI, a fluorescent dye that binds to DNA. Chief scientist Ginny Edgcomb took these photos of the cells through a fluorescence microscope.
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