Sentences with phrase «old microscope»

If you've ever taken a biology class, you've probably seen a cell; all you need is an old microscope and a single blob of liquid.

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@Vic After hundreds of hours of examination under an electron microscope, the much lauded Dino soft tissue turned out to be nothing more than 10,000 year old pond sc.um.

The Onondaga County policy of placing 16 - and 17 - year olds into solitary confinement at the Jamesville Correctional facility is under the microscope.

As George Osborne's leadership ambitions come under the microscope, is even David Cameron losing patience with his old pal?

The debut collection of 38 - year - old Los Angeles — based psychologist Amy Sweetman puts fashion under the microscope with chemical - adorned accessories.

Lenses are no longer necessary for some microscopes, according to Rice University engineers developing FlatScope, a thin fluorescent microscope whose abilities promise to surpass those of old - school devices.

«Under the microscope, eggs from reproductively young and old animals may look identical, but the environment in which they are growing is completely different,» said lead study author Francesca Duncan, executive director of the Center for Reproductive Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Schweitzer placed the remains under scanning electron and atomic force microscopes and concluded that the 70 - million - year - old eggs still held embryos containing intact collagen.

Under the microscope, the etching showed the zigzag had undergone millennia of weathering, confirming the marks were more than 300,000 years older than the previously oldest known engraving: a zigzag etched into a piece of ochre by an anatomically modern human in Blombos Cave, South Africa.

It's a set decorator's version of a biologist's home: old brass microscopes, an ostrich egg on the mantle, tottering piles of research papers, and thousands of books heaped on groaning shelves.

With his pals in Cleveland, Ohio, where he grew up as the oldest son of a psychiatrist and an artist, Tatar entertained himself by scooping up pond water samples and, with a microscope, peering at the algae and protozoa trawling about within.

Using an ingenious method to increase the resolution of their microscope, Van Heumen and McLeod succeeded in testing a 60 - year old theory that explains the switch from metal to insulator.

Researchers claim this scanning electron microscope image captures collagen fibrous material from an 80 - million - year - old dinosaur fossil.

The microscope in question was a miserable elementary - school device, barely illuminated with an old table lamp, and the cells in question were just onion skin and blobby scrapings from my cheek, but the effect was electrifying.

Parker and David McKenzie, a physicist at the University of Sydney in Australia, used an electron microscope to examine alternating layers in the exoskeleton of a 50 - million - year - old blue beetle.

The researchers gingerly placed each of the remaining 2 - day - old embryos into a dish on a special microscope.

Looking through a microscope, Youngnam Jin — a postdoctoral fellow in Randy Peterson's lab at Massachusetts General Hospital's Cardiovascular Research Center — arranges one - celled zebrafish embryos, each about 10 minutes old, into rows of 20, spinning them with a micro spatula to turn their nuclei toward the ultrathin glass needle of a micro-injection device.

Whether it's the Bunsen burner or the microscope, scientists young and old are being asked to post their nominations along with a photo or picture if available, online www.scientificlaboratoryshow.com The top ten nominated objects will go into the Show's «Hall of Fame» on 25th May, and delegates will be asked to vote for their Number One object during the Show and conference.

Oddly, both the old and new versions carry the same version number, 1.1.3, but the new build is most definitely optimized for the Bold where as the old one could barely be seen without a microscope.

In addition to watching Ruff Ruff's «treatment,» the 35 students saw how X-ray equipment works, viewed blood under a microscope, and were given stethoscopes to listen to the real heart beats of Betty, a 7 - year - old Spaniel mix owned by vet technician DeAndra Roberts, and Sugar, whose owner, Adrienne Ashworth, is the receptionist at Good Shepherd.

Many older clinical microscopes use filament light sources (generally halogen or tungsten) and are configured for Köhler illumination.

When a gaming icon is rebooted, or an older version of an iconic franchise is ported to a new format, the fans will be putting that reboot under a microscope.

Also under the microscope at present is the SRA, albeit that in its present guise it is only just over two years old.

As a young man, you will be placed under a microscope by the insurance companies until you are at least 25 years old.