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Good night~

Done with clinical microscopy 🥲 I’m so mentally exhausted right now 🥹 I’ll sleep first. Good night~ 

Review

Review season is here! I’m done with clinical chemistry and now in clin microscopy 🥹

Busy day today (microscopy only)

Nanotubes for TEM!

I’m very happy to finally return to lab! Even happier to start preparing my first samples for TEM. 👩🏾‍🔬 🦠Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) is a technique to see the tiny details of the materials, sometimes even to the atomic level. It works like an optic microscope,🔬 but instead of… read more

Waves 3: Xrays and how to use them

We've talked about some basics on waves, now let's delve into some more practical uses. X-radiation (Xrays) range from 10nm to 10pm in wavelength. This is very useful to us, because that's about the size of atoms all the way down to the size of nuclei. This makes for a wonderful probe at the… read more

My water samples for microscopy

I used condensor for oxygenating the samples so the populations will not suffocate, but i do not recommend this, still water is better for them. I think better option is just to fertilise them (with fertiliser for algae) and put them on ambient, not direct light, so the water will not be hot enough… read more

Nature is wild

This is literally part of a human cell captured using expansion microscopy. I believe this is a fractal (of?) someone else much larger in the world but Even if it's not I'd super cool to look at.

Optical illusion test! Plus I need help figuring out which is the correct interpretation. Are the dark regions on the surface cavities or bumps?

I took some electron microscopy images and we can’t figure out if they are cavities or bumps on the surface. If you look at it long enough they seem to switch between the two interpretations! Thoughts? Flipped image also included. Thanks! (edited)

Puddle water microscopy

Microscopy of water samples i collected from puddles around my house. Seems like a species of Vorticella. (edited)