When I first came up with the idea for a microscopy based public engagement initiative, I didn’t think I would end up in a wildlife park in Birmingham reaching over a fence trying to obtain a porcupine
quill. The things we do for science!
Microscopy and biology have always been intimately linked together. One of the driving forces for the development of the very earliest microscopes was our curiosity of the basis of life and our desire to understand it.
