Grant Museum of Zoology

Rockefeller Building

University College London

London, England, UK

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This nano-themed Name That Zoom is brought to you by the Museum of Life and Science with help from Michelle Gignac at the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) at Duke University and her trusty scanning electron microscope (SEM). Meet Michelle at this weekend's NanoDays event.

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Students in Dave Potter's Ichthyology class at Unity College dissect a variety of fish species during a lab period. They weighed, measured, and identified the specimens before removing the pharyngeal bone for further examination.

400x DIC and green and red fluorescence

This cell dish contains live samples of cancer removed from the spinal cord.

Daphina recorded at 60X magnification.

Macro Holga photo of some of the collections at the St. Louis Science Center.

The collections are remnants of when the museum started at a Natural History and Science Museum. They are now stored in a non-public site and used occasionally for displays.

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Human hair, hand held, pointed down the lens of a microscope

Professor of Biology and Microbiology Robert Wise, works on the electron microscope in Halsey science center. Thursday, February 28, 2019.

Prélevés dans des petits lacs situés à 2200 m d'altitude.

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Rotifer Monomata

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coil

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Pitt-Addington Marsh, 4x*1.25x, FLUO-C6.1

oedogonium

The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University, Oxford.

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Prepared slide from the Celestron 44412 kit b

Four Images Fused In Photomatix -2,0,+2 and 0 with camera flash

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Hair follicle

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200x DIC and green and red fluorescence. Merge of 60 image files.

old potmeter 250K

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