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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Engineers at Stanford University have developed a high-efficiency, battery/solar-operated, autonomous microscope with ...

One of Charles Darwin’s microscope slides from his groundbreaking geological research is set for auction after being discovered in a cardboard box – almost 200 years on. The tiny piece of history, ...

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