Microscope stages are platforms where specimens are placed for observation with a microscope. They are often equipped with a mechanical device which holds the specimen slide in place, but allows the ...

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 ...

You should not look through the microscope to do this. Place the microscope slide – either one you have prepared, or a permanent slide – on the stage. Line it up so that the specimen – if ...

You should not look through the microscope to do this. Place the microscope slide – either one you have prepared, or a permanent slide – on the stage. Line it up so that the specimen – if ...

The VS120-S6-W slide loader system allows for manually loading one and six standard slides, respectively, along with any associated meta-data. Designed for high throughput research and pathology ...

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There are two types of microscopes available: simple and compound microscopes. A simple microscope is equipped with one lens but a compound microscope has both an eyepiece and an objective lens.

Identification of eggs, first, and second instar larvae by morphological characters can be extremely difficult, and, because these stages are relatively short lived and seldom encountered during the ...

However, scientists report that queen black garden ants (Lasius niger) eat offspring in a seemingly unappetizing state: when the larvae are infected with a fungus 1. By doing so, the queens ...

The advent of large-scale sequencing in both development and disease has identified large numbers of candidate genes that may be linked to important phenotypes. Validating the function of these ...

Researchers have uncovered an under-the-sea phenomenon where coral-destroying crown-of-thorns starfish larvae have been feasting on blue-green algae bacteria known as "sea sawdust." The team of ...

not their aquatic larvae," Michael said. Insects in amber are also very difficult to prepare for a scanning electron microscope. You have to slice the amber into thin sections, destroying the fossil.