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interviewed NYITCOM Associate Professor of Anatomy Akinobu Watanabe, Ph.D., about a project that he collaborated on with New York University, which provides a less expensive way for scientists to digitize fossil collections and preserve at-risk specimens. He notes that the device, known as PaleoScan, could be an especially critical tool in historically underserved nations and institutions.

鈥淓mpowering resource-poor museums and institutions [with the ability] to scan their own fossils and provide virtual versions to the rest of the world, I think, would really help the scientific community, but also the institutions themselves,鈥� says Watanabe. 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 a game changer.鈥�