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Diatoms - Nature’s Jewels viewed with a Microscope
Diatoms are unicellular algae (Division Chrysophyta, Class Bacillariophyceae). Diatoms are microscopic in size, live in water, soil and moist en...
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The Importance of the Correct Coverglass thickness for Photomicrography
A coverslip also called a coverglass is usually made of thin pieces of borosilicate glass that are used to cover specimens viewed on a microscope...
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Cladocerans, Fashionable and Hyperactive Crustaceans
Have you ever seen, while looking at a small body of water, tiny jumping organisms? Chances are you were looking at cladocerans, microscopic cru...
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Manual Vs Motorized Light Microscopes, When and What to Choose?
Interested in all this new imaging technology, but also confused when to make the jump from a manual to a motorized microscope? Maybe you don’t ...
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Questions to Ask When Selecting the Right Microscope Camera
Ever wonder how to choose the right camera for your microscope? It can be a daunting task with all the options out there, and how these cameras ...
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Using EDF to Focus on Tall Parts
When Imaging, we all run into samples where we can not completely focus our field of view. In the past, only expensive motorized microscopes c...
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Easy Macro Imaging - Automated Tiling Using a Motorized Stage
Tiling is a microscopy term that refers to using a software to photograph the entirety of a Region of Interest (ROI) in small “tiles”. These ti...
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Introduction to Dark-Field Microscopy
Dark-field is a technique that can be added to almost any light microscope and is economical in cost. Sometimes spider-disks or even coins can...
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The Importance of Encoding in a Microscope
Ever see an image taken from a microscope and wonder what magnification it was taken at?
In most manual microscopes, communication between obje...
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Freshwater Hydras, Aliens of the Microworld
If you have a freshwater aquarium at home, chances are that you’re familiar with hydras, primitive alienesque critters belonging to the Cnidaria...
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Microscopy of Yeast used in the Fermentation of Beer and Wine
Yeast cells are essential in the production of beer and wine and a microscope permits the ability to count yeast cells and assess if there might...
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The Microscopic Structure of Starch Grains Food Microscopy
Light microscopy plays an important role in the analysis and research of plant starch. In the future researchers are trying to modify the proper...
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Majestic Water Bears and Where to Find Them
You might’ve encountered them on the internet, in your favorite sci-fi movie or TV show, on the news or even in real life! Tardigrades, also cal...
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Motic Polarizing Microscope to Analyze Birefringence with Fixed Retardation Plates and Variable Compensators (Part II)
Compensators are birefringent crystals with a known amount of birefringence and include ¼, full wave, and multiple wave plates (Quartz Wedge). T...
Birefringence using a Motic Polarizing Microscope and the Michel-Lévy Chart (Part I)
When viewing anisotropic specimens with a polarized light microscope many specimens appear beautiful, especially crystals, and polarized light m...
Phase Contrast by Motic
In the history of microscopy, one of the challenges microscopists faced was producing enough contrast when observing thin tissue sections and li...
How Best to Light your Microscope Sample (Part II)
Following up on our previous piece (Part I) on contrast methods, in Part II we talk about Polarization and DIC. Polarization - This contrast met...
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How Best to Light Your Microscope Sample (Part I)
Ever wonder which lighting technique on a microscope is best for your samples? Different contrast methods could be vital to emphasize features a...
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