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  • Thumbnail for Immune electron microscopy
    embedding the cells into slides. A reaction occurs between the antigen and antibody, causing this label to become visible under the microscope. Scanning...
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    only visible under the microscope. Interlobar ducts connect lobes and interlobular ducts connect lobules. The four main lobes of the brain the frontal...
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    Labradorite (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    and they are not directly visible under the microscope. Contributions to the understanding of the origin and cause of the effect were made by Robert...
    10 KB (869 words) - 01:59, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hans Christian Gram
    development of the Gram stain, still a standard technique to classify bacteria and make them more visible under a microscope. Gram was the son of Frederik...
    6 KB (555 words) - 21:49, 30 October 2023
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    is essentially the same process, the difference being that the substances ingested are in solution and not visible under the microscope. Phagocytosis and...
    17 KB (2,035 words) - 07:44, 24 December 2023
  • microscope, the range of objects that fall under this scale can be as small as an atom, visible underneath a transmission electron microscope. Microscope types...
    26 KB (2,568 words) - 15:07, 18 May 2024
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    a reticular (mesh-like) network of ribosomal RNA that becomes visible under a microscope with certain stains such as new methylene blue and Romanowsky...
    6 KB (660 words) - 05:01, 28 March 2024
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    specific function. The term comes from the Latin word cellula meaning 'small room'. Most cells are only visible under a microscope. Cells emerged on Earth...
    61 KB (6,320 words) - 14:00, 7 May 2024
  • Optical methods (e.g., determining the area of the material versus the area of the pores visible under the microscope). The "areal" and "volumetric" porosities...
    22 KB (2,902 words) - 18:57, 5 May 2024
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    histological features visible under the microscope. The nucleus is often large and irregular, and the cytoplasm may also display abnormalities. The shape, size...
    16 KB (1,727 words) - 06:01, 19 May 2024
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    large cells that are very visible under a microscope, and while they account for only about 5% of cells projecting to the spinal cord, they are often...
    5 KB (623 words) - 19:42, 2 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Differential interference contrast microscopy
    causes the two rays to come to a focal point outside the body of the prism, and so allows greater flexibility when setting up the microscope, as the prism...
    13 KB (1,567 words) - 05:26, 19 May 2023
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    developed the Gram stain. This stain is still a standard technique used to classify bacteria, by making them more visible under a microscope, to the present...
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  • Thumbnail for Locus (genetics)
    genotypes (the genetic constitution of organisms), uncovering genetic associations. The shorter arm of a chromosome is termed the p arm or p-arm, while the longer...
    6 KB (561 words) - 15:47, 1 January 2024
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    are visible under the microscope. This appearance is due to the accumulation of abnormal mitochondria below the plasma membrane of the muscle fiber. These...
    18 KB (1,929 words) - 14:57, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electron microscope
    that of visible light, electron microscopes have a much higher resolution of about 0.1 nm, which compares to about 200 nm for light microscopes. Electron...
    46 KB (5,370 words) - 19:19, 21 May 2024
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    visible under a microscope and will settle over time if left undisturbed. This distinguishes a suspension from a colloid, in which the colloid particles...
    8 KB (943 words) - 12:09, 8 February 2024
  • travels through the sample under a conventional microscope as far into the specimen as it can penetrate, while a confocal microscope only focuses a smaller...
    46 KB (5,298 words) - 06:21, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dark-field microscopy
    In optical microscopes a darkfield condenser lens must be used, which directs a cone of light away from the objective lens. To maximize the scattered light-gathering...
    11 KB (1,226 words) - 18:15, 15 September 2023
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    structures visible without a microscope. Although one may divide microscopic anatomy into organology, the study of organs, histology, the study of tissues...
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