Answer: microscopes
Similarly the development of microscopes drove, somewhat later in the same century, the discovery of cells; Hooke and van Leuwenhoek, like Galileo, were hands-on developers of their instruments.The discovery of the green fluorescent protein (GFP), increasingly sophisticated microscopes, and the development of in vitro assays that faithfully reproduce cellular functions are just a few examples of technical advances that have spurred on many areas of cell biology
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