While the glass wall between actors and audience would, you might think, be distancing, in fact it draws you in like a glowing microscope slide.

However, this leads to the problem of finding small numbers of aberrant cells on a microscope slide among perhaps millions of normal ones.

Next, he deposits the cell onto a microscope slide, where it dries.

Mounting usually involves attaching the samples to a glass microscope slide for observation and analysis.

Smaller objects such as seeds can be placed on a microscope slide and secured using small adhesive labels.