microscopy

CEFRB2

/maɪˈkɹɒs.kə.pi/

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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She studied cells using microscopy techniques.
Nematodes are transparent. It is one of the features that make them an ideal model organism, amenable to microscopy.
Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”

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Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”
1966 February 26, Robert Schrek, ““Hairy” Cells in Blood in Lymphoreticular Neoplastic Disease and “Flagellated” Cells of Normal Lymph Nodes”, in Blood, volume 27, number 2, page...
Nematodes are transparent. It is one of the features that make them an ideal model organism, amenable to microscopy.
2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 88
A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).
2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News

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