Microscopy Podcast

Dry mounted permanent slides do not use a liquid mounting medium. The cover glass has to be held in place in another way.

Concave microscope slides have either one or two depressions to hold larger specimens.

There are several methods how bubbles can be reduced when making slides.

This post explains how to make a wet mount. Video included!

Before specimens can be processed for making permanent slides, they may need to be fixed.

A hemocytometer or counting chamber is used to count cell density. Here I show you how this is done.

The thickness of the cover glass can have a significant impact on the resolution.

There are different ways of digitizing analog slides.