Histology Microscope

This collection offers users online access to a virtual microscope of slides showing human tissues and diseases. The microscopic images can be accessed through any web browser and users are able to employ all the functions of a real microscope - such as scanning across an image, magnifying an image, adjusting lighting and photographing areas of interest on a slide.

280 slides are available in the collection and they are grouped into the following sets: basic histology; tissues and stains; inflammation and tissue damage; infection; tumours; neuropathology; ophthalmology; lung and gut pathology; liver and kidney pathology; breast and endocrine pathology. Each set has a linked work book to accompany it and additional material on the science of histology is available.

The Histology Microscope is part of a wider project to create and run the OpenScience Laboratory, which enables global access to an online lab and observatory and aims to transform the teaching of practical science, at all levels of education.

Unless otherwise stated, content within this collection is licensed under Creative Commons.

This is a description of an Online Resource. Online Resources are websites that describe, interpret and provide access to archives. They often provide access to digital content but they may also describe physical materials. They usually cover a theme or topic, such as an individual, a movement, or an important historical event.

Access this resource online: https://learn5.open.ac.uk/course/format/sciencelab/section.php?name=histology_microscope

A Jisc funded digitisation initiative. Publisher: Open University

A legend supports each image by taking users directly to points of interest on an individual slide and the collection is designed to work as an online teaching resource for histology and histopathology.

This collection will support those teaching and studying the biological sciences, medicine and the technological developments associated with science and scientific education and research in the 21st century.

It has been primarily designed to support university-level educators and undergraduates, whose universities participate in the OpenScience Laboratory project. Teachers at school level will also be able to make use of some sections of the online slide collection during practical lessons and some areas of the collection are also available to the wider general public.