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Today’s WHAT’S THAT MICROSCOPY?! [40x]

Geckos are famous for their climbing abilities due to their special feet lined with microscopic hairs called setae. Each foot contains over 500,000 setae, which are 10x smaller than a human hair.   [@microscopicvision]

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C.L.Frost, untitled photograph of cream cheese mould

Human fingerprint. The smaller circles within the epidermal ridges are sweat gland ducts. P.S. Don’t touch me ever again

4x magnification on a dissecting scope. Hint is in the tags.

Possibly a beetle larva? It does have 6 legs, mandibles, and a pronotum that doesn't cover the head.

This was one of the fluffy tubes that come out of those elongated flowers. And its hairs.

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Now I am trying to analyze those data to get to know how stiff these membranes secreted from cancer cells are.  These membrane vesicles are so small that they are not visible under any optical microscope! They are literally about 100 nm = 0.000 000 1 m in diameter or even smaller. The needle I use to scan their surface is only 10 nm = 0.000 000 01 m wide.

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These are all from one tiny sample of lake water.