Microscope clubs formed and periodicals promoted microscopy. People not only bought pre-made slides, but made their own collecting trips to gather things to look at, often to the beach.

He developed sophisticated techniques for observing bacterial growth on microscope slides, and saw that anthrax could form spores that survived desiccation, but produced more bacteria when put ...

[Nature Under Glass: Gallery of Victorian Microscope Slides] One of the strangest ... a professor of microbiology at the University of Kentucky, College of Medicine, who uses microscopes in ...

A NEW method of providing dyes for some of the commoner staining procedures has been developed and tested. A small volume of the required dye solution is prepared according to the appropriate ...

A new 3-D printed, easily assembled smartphone microscope developed at Stanford University turns microbiology into game ... of a platform for the microscope slide where the Euglena swim freely ...

Ten minutes later, you have a device that weighs 9 grams, fits in a pocket, holds regular microscope slides, and can magnify ... s claws to a colony of bacteria. Best of all, the device costs ...

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 ...

Kirby's team used an automated microscope designed to collect ... bloodstream infections were incubated to increase bacterial numbers. Then, slides were prepared by placing a drop of blood on ...

The microscope slide containing the diatom indicates it was collected in Maryland and made by someone identified only as "FM," according to the slide's owner Howard Lynk, an antique slide ...

Bacterial vaginosis ... They’ll smear the cells on a small microscope slide and mix them with a saline solution. They’ll view the slide under a microscope. Your doctor will know what type ...

But distinguishing different cells often requires several stages of staining. Now researchers are presenting a new type of microscope slide which uses nanotechnology to change the perceived color of ...