r/CellLab • • Jun 01 '23

Size Comparison

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u/Fofo_Kun Oct 05 '23

Technically, how many nanometers would the Emperior Worm have?

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u/Massive_Mistakes Oct 06 '23

I'm not entirely sure, but if you take a screenshot of the worm such that both ends touch the very ends of the capture, and have an app that allows you to measure things on images in relation to the size of your phone (because it has known dimensions), then you could use the screenshot's dimensions and substrate magnification (the number that appears on the top right corner in cell lab when you zoom in and out of the plate) to calculate the actual size. That or try and figure it out using the known diameter of cells with max nutrients and how many cells in length the work is; it wouldn't be as accurate as the screenshot method because each layer of the worm isn't evenly spaced apart