Biofilm in buffer
Oct 25, 2018 • 2:18 AM UTC
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Valencia D'souza
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Maintenance of buffers in the lab are an important aspect but are also prone to contamination easily. Similarly, a common buffer happened to be unused since a long time and was eventually discarded. It just so happened due to festive week, the lab remained closed for a week allowing the buffer solution to remain further stored. Upon returning we were welcomed by new members that managed to have found a new home in the buffer bottle that remained untouched all this while. The community had made their presence quite evident by producing a really amazing layer of biofilm that made me really curious to know more about it.
Strange but fascinating I couldn’t help but view it under my foldscope. Since there was a constant problem of the slide drying up, I was unable to capture the bacterial community in the start, finally I shifted to cavity slides which retained the solution with the biofilm and helped me get a better view if not the best 😉
Strange but fascinating I couldn’t help but view it under my foldscope. Since there was a constant problem of the slide drying up, I was unable to capture the bacterial community in the start, finally I shifted to cavity slides which retained the solution with the biofilm and helped me get a better view if not the best 😉
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In the above video, its only the surface of the biofilm that can be visualized, but once focused and close enough…..
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Inorder to identify better, here is a little bit of phone filter that I tried, to make the tiny beings more evident, alteast their movement…:)
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Well, the videos are longer than what I’ve added but cropping and editing takes time so this is all for now!
#IndiaFoldscopePhase1
#IndiaFoldscopePhase1
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