Slicing tissue. Technician looking through a light micrograph while finely slicing resin-embedded tissue using a diamond knife ultramicrotome. The ult

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Slicing tissue. Technician looking through a light micrograph while finely slicing resin-embedded tissue using a diamond knife ultramicrotome. The ultramicrotome has been cooled with liquid nitrogen (seen evaporating as a white vapour) to preserve the proteins within the tissue structures. Photographed at Dundee University in Dundee, Scotland.

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