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 ...

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 ...

Brian Abbey receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Belinda Parker receives funding from the DHHS, National Breast Cancer Foundation, Prostate Cancer Foundation Australia, ...

The Museum has around 2.5 million microscope slides in its collections, which are either vertically or horizontally stored. The Digital Collections Programme has developed a slide digitisation ...

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 ...

Australian researchers have brought the humble glass slide, used in millions of microscopes around the world, into the 21st century. They’ve used nanotechnology to turn this small piece of plain glass ...