Children as Researchers: Event Co-Organised by BBMRI.at Proves a Success

Together with the Austrian Society of Pathology and the Institute of Pathology of the Medical University of Graz, BBMRI.at recently organised a research event for children titled Ready For Microscopy – Let’s Look Inside the Human Body.

More than 40 children attended the event, trying out a variety of tasks that are usually carried out at pathology departments and biobanks. They were given raspberry juice so they could see what freezing blood in a biobank was like and got to stain real paraffin tissue sections with H&E to then view them under a microscope, among other activities.

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