Vibrating Microtomes: What They Are & Their Applications

What are Vibrating Microtomes? Before the tissue slicers, scientists had to manually cut biological materials with their tools, which required meticulous work for great precision. With the invention of the tissue slicers, mainly the microtomes (from the Greek mikros, meaning “small,” and temnein, meaning “to cut”), biological specimens such as sensitive tissues, brain slices, and […]