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Anne works as an electron microscopist for Cancer Research UK in London. She works with a variety of research groups, using techniques such as transmission electron microscopy and cryo-electron microscopy. "We have a number of projects going at any one time," Anne says. She was originally based in a department where she worked solely on eyes, but remarks that "where I work now it can be just about anything. It can be tissue, it can be cells, it can come from anywhere." In addition to taking pictures, Anne also colour-enhances many of the images herself. However, it is the preparation of the samples and the capturing of the images that she enjoys the most. "I think I enjoy taking the pictures more because you never know what you are going to find."
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