This morning, we went to Dr. Griffith’s lab. Interestingly, Dr. Griffith is my piano teacher’s husband, so I already knew him. We first watched a presentation about thin sectioning, DNA, and viruses, and how they relate to the electron microscope.
It is amazing how powerful and expensive these tools are, and it’s simply unbelievable that we can now see what we’ve never seen before.
We also got to see the diamond knife. Dr. Christina showed us the way it works, then put it under a microscope with a specimen, and let us look into it (it had two eye pieces!!!). The diamond knife cuts specimens for thin sectioning.