Microscopy Forum

elisa said:

I'm Elisa, the microscopy is my work instrument: I'm a pathologist and a coroner. Besides these technical aspects, I use it in order to look for "artistic" aspects that many human pathologic tissues can show. It's strange and wonderful at the same time to find "beauty" in the disease…really!

 

Hi Elisa, welcome to the forum. I'm happy to meet another citizen of my country and i think your job is very interesting! 

 

luca

Yes, welcome, Eliza.  And I agree with you: histological micrographs can be breathtakingly beautiful.  Differential staining techniques of all kinds create the unique contrast qualities and blazing colors needed to disclose the structure behind the function (or pathological dysfunction) that would otherwise remain hidden in sections of tissues and organs. 

Some of us amateurs lack the access to professional laboratory facilities and the skill to use them that you have.  So please, by all means, share with us some of your favorites!  You could open up a whole new gallery of images of human histological preparations…..  We would all love to see them.