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Using cell sorting technology at the Flow Cytometry & Cell Sorting Shared Resource at Hollings, the researchers sorted T-cells according to the amount of Golgi they contained.

The researchers used flow cytometry, a laser-based technique that analyzes cell characteristics, to tally the fern’s whopping 160 billion base pairs.

Achieving these findings required significant support from the Bio-Imaging Analysis Facility and the Research Flow Cytometry Core at Cincinnati Children's.

With funding from the Cornell Center for Immunology, they also employed a newer technique called Imaging Mass Cytometry.

Doing that involved a combination of flow cytometry -- a laser-based technique used to detect and analyse the chemical and physical characteristics of cells or particles -- and light microscopes.