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  1. fluorescence microscopy
    light microscopy in which the specimen is irradiated at wavelengths that excite fluorochromes
    Fluorescence and light microscopy
    See also: fluorescence microscope and immunofluorescence
    The most recent developments in light microscope largely centre on the rise of fluorescence microscopy in biology.
  2. immunofluorescence
    (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue
    Fluorescence and light microscopy
    See also: fluorescence microscope and immunofluorescence
    The most recent developments in light microscope largely centre on the rise of fluorescence microscopy in biology.
  3. microscopy
    research using special instruments to see small things
    The science of investigating small objects using such an instrument is called microscopy.
  4. electron microscopy
    microscopy with the use of electron microscopes
    Electron microscopy
    1.3
  5. electron microscope
    a microscope that is similar in purpose to a light microscope but achieves much greater resolving power by using a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light
    Other major types of microscopes are the electron microscope (both the transmission electron microscope and the scanning electron microscope) and the various types of scanning probe microscope.
  6. microscope
    magnifier of the image of small objects
    A microscope (from the Greek: μικρός, mikrós, "small" and σκοπεῖν, skopeîn, "to look" or "see") is an instrument to see objects too small for the naked eye.
  7. fluorescence
    light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength
    Fluorescence and light microscopy
    2 Types
    2.1
  8. light microscope
    microscope consisting of an optical instrument that magnifies the image of an object
    Fluorescence and light microscopy
    See also: fluorescence microscope and immunofluorescence
    The most recent developments in light microscope largely centre on the rise of fluorescence microscopy in biology.
  9. electron
    an elementary particle with negative charge
    Other major types of microscopes are the electron microscope (both the transmission electron microscope and the scanning electron microscope) and the various types of scanning probe microscope.
  10. Leeuwenhoek
    Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles (1632-1723)
    A greatest contribution came from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek who discovered red blood cells and spermatozoa and helped popularise microscopy as a technique.
  11. scanning
    the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission
    Other major types of microscopes are the electron microscope (both the transmission electron microscope and the scanning electron microscope) and the various types of scanning probe microscope.
  12. fluorescent
    emitting light during exposure to external radiant energy
    During the last decades of the 20th century, particularly in the post-genomic era, many techniques for fluorescent labeling of cellular structures were developed.
  13. Malpighi
    Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694)
    Marcelo Malpighi in Italy began the analysis of biological structures beginning with the lungs.
Created on Thu Sep 30 22:07:56 EDT 2010

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