Pursuing Truth
I was working in the lab recently. I took a blood sample, to examine at it under the microscope. I had done this before, but it still fascinates me to see my own blood cells up close, in such great detail. I saw hundreds of red blood cells, many white blood cells, and I think I even saw some platelets. I have a camera connected to my microscope, and took a picture of the cells. I then used a measuring tool in the program to measure the width of the red and white blood cells. I added notes to the image to record details including what the image was, the date, and magnification. It looked good, and I saved the image. I then thought to myself, "Are my measurements correct?" Of course I am the only one who would likely ever see the image and measurements, but I was curious to see if my measurements were consistent with documented and accepted data. After doing some research, and looking at information from multiple sources, it looked as though my measurements were off by a signi