English example sentences with "under the microscope"

He looked at the slide under the microscope.

Germs are visible only under the microscope.

The biologist looked at a spore under the microscope.

She looked at the corpuscular mass under the microscope and was relieved to find it was not cancerous.

Roughly 253 scientists from 21 countries worked for five years to decipher the genetic blueprints of the single-cell parasites that cause sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease. Experts say the disease-causing protozoa, which affect 500 million people in the tropics and sub-tropics at any one time, look identical under the microscope, but are spread by different flying insects.