According to career resource website Work911, using techniques such as open-ended questioning (i.e., asking questions that require more than a yes or no answer) can allow all parties of a conversation to give their opinions on a subject. This technique can make verbal communication among team members more effective.
Immunofixation fixes certain proteins into place with antibodies and then washes away the others before staining them. On a computer screen, these proteins form a pattern of bands. Peaks and valleys in the bands may mean that you may be making too many or too few of certain proteins.
Note how easily you can determine when the images shift from the normal blood smear to the sickle-cell blood smear. In a sickle-cell smear, many RBCs have irregular, flattened shapes (i.e., sickle-cells) and some may have dark centers (target cells). Example of normal blood smear, from WebPath.