• Question: Do you use microscopes

    Asked by Laur3n to Sudhin, Sergio, Katie, Frances, Diarmuid, Aoife on 14 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Aoife Campbell

      Aoife Campbell answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      Yes, sometimes. I would use a microscope to look at brain slices to detect areas of damage and look at specific types of brain cells to see if any of them are altered in angelman syndrome

    • Photo: Katie Fala

      Katie Fala answered on 21 Nov 2019: last edited 21 Nov 2019 2:18 pm

      Yes, I use simple microscopes to stain the new bacteria that I am studying to help me identify them by looking at their shape and colour like in this picture:

      I hope to learn more types of microscopy, for example confocal that uses fluorescent stains to view bacteria living in biofilms and see which ones are living/dead.

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