This article shows how Penn State University used the LatticeAx to cleanly downsize a standard glass microscope slide and eliminate more than a day of additional work when the exclusively prepared ...

The modern microscope is an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to detecting disease, but typically the biological material being studied needs to be stained or dyed to reveal its secrets. This can ...

Microscope slides can now record the temperature of samples thanks to a new transparent coating made from acrylic glass. The study, published online in Nature Communications, describes how an updated ...

1) Microscope slides and coverglass are used in many parts of the lab while knowledge of how these items are made and the technical properties they have is limited. 2) By not understanding the ...

To stain cells for examination with a light microscope. To examine a range of cells and other structures with a microscope to understand their basic structure. When viewing any slide with a microscope ...

The new type of microscope makes light travel in a circle. That way it can interact multiple times with the sample. Everyone who ever took a photo knows the problem: if you want a detailed image, you ...

Wesley R. Coe, professor of zoology at Yale during the early 20th century, devoted his career to studying ribbon worms — a group of mostly marine-dwelling creatures that includes more than 1,000 known ...