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WHAT IS HISTOLOGY?
MLTs working in histology will receive biopsy and organ specimens that need to be viewed under the microscope.
We will receive the specimens, fix them (often in formaldehyde), cut them to fit in molds, put them in wax to maintain their shape, and then cut them very thinly so that they can then be placed on slides before we stain them. Things look a lot different once their on slides and viewed microscopically. They look even more different after they get stained. The whole purpose of putting them on slides for a pathologist to view is to make sure they don't see anything abnormal (like tumours).
BUT in our lab we examine close up images of different candy. You need to look closely because if there's anything that's out of the blue (like a different candy) it's BAD!
We also compare the difference between something that's stained versus unstained!
WHAT IS HISTOLOGY?
In the candy lab we use a handheld magnifying glass like this!
GIVE IT A TRY!
We have a bunch of different magnifying glasses so we can see EVEN CLOSER into our candies like this!
Things under a heavy duty magnifying glass are much harder to tell!!
For instance a nerds cluster under the bigger magnifying glass is harder to tell than with the naked eye!
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Would you have known what that was without this nerds cluster?!?!
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Looking at candies under a magnifying glass isn't the only thing we do in the histology candy lab!
We also dye our candies different colours here, so it is easier to tell apart!
It's harder to tell the different components and to guess what kind of gummy worm this might be when you can't see the colour or when it is unstained. But as soon as it's coloured or stained you can see exactly what type of gummy worm it is.
LET'S TRY A HARDER ONE!
Scroll to see what this candy looks like stained...
Now it's your turn!
For each zoomed in picture (these use the heavy duty magnifying glass) determine what type of candy it might be....
This next one is a little trickier because there is an extra step so be careful!
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