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The slide was colored artificially, the Volvox were colored blue and this creature red. But I have no idea on how they do it.

Hi folks, I purchased a set of prepared slides from China and I'm studying each one to increase my knowledge on microscopic life. One of the slides is named as Volvox W.M. (What does W.M. stands for?). I googled Volvox to know what I was looking at, but there is this other creature in red on the sam...

JGardner wrote:I bought two sets of prepared slides recently and they had lots of dust and fingerprints all over them. I cleaned then with isopropyl alcohol (IPA) 91% and didn't have any issues with the cover slips coming off.

Did you rub it with tissue or just pressed the tissue over it to remove the dust?

Hi folks, I purchased a box of prepared slides to analyse and the slides came with a lot of dust on top of it, which is disturbing the image quite a lot. I'm afraid of accidentally removing the cover slips while cleaning it. How do you suggest I clean this slides? I`m attaching some pictures so you ...

Hello everyone, I'm from Brazil and I just bought my first microscope. It's a very simple one, but enough for now. I'm statistics PhD student and have no biology formation besides things I've learned on high school, so my adventure trough microscopic world is driven mostly by curiosity. I long to le...