These one
celled microscopic animals are most commonly detected by fecal examination.
Not exact matches
Scientists are forced either to experiment on whole
animals, which is expensive, raises ethical issues and may not predict effects in humans, or to perform tests on
microscopic human
cells found in tissue cultures, which have been altered to live forever and bear little relation to actual living, breathing people.
A few
microscopic techniques can focus light deep into the intact brains of dead
animals to study its structure without damaging the axons, but much of this light is scattered away by the fatty lipid membranes that surround individual
cells, making the technique less than perfect.
bacteria
Microscopic, single -
celled organisms that dwell nearly everywhere on Earth, from the bottom of the sea to inside
animals.
Previous studies of this type relied on
microscopic examination of tissue samples from sacrificed
animals, but this new approach allows researchers to watch the life or death of
cells in real time.
The smartphone microscope is powerful enough to visualize specimens as small as 1 / 200th of a millimeter, including
microscopic organisms,
animal and plant
cells, blood
cells,
cell nuclei, and more.
are
microscopic, single -
celled protozoa that live and reproduce within the
animal cell.