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Microbes: Secret Rulers of the World?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Transmission Electron Microscope - The First Time Out

The first time i ever did something called transmission electron microscope, which is a way of looking at inside cells. But it's an incredibly fiddly thing. Its you have to kind of shave these thes very, very fine ar so slices off of it then put under the microscope. It is like planing a piece of wood under a microscope to try and get a lovely, lovely ribbon of wood off of it. And apparntly what all the rookies do, and i do this myself first time out: As you find a sell you find a mitichondrian ad. Oh, my god, it looks like the text book. You zoom in on it at 80 thousand times

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