材料分析和病理分析

說到材料分析，對許多人來說可能是很陌生的東西，但是將其連結到病理分析，大家應該會比較有概念。二者確實是很類似的工作，只是材料分析的樣品是來自無生命的個體，而病理分析的樣品是來自有生命，或者曾經有生命的個體。透過高倍率的顯微鏡和者分析儀，探索樣品中的某些特徵物，並找出這些特徵物和事件的關聯性。

People may not know what materials analysis is, but should be familiar with pathological analysis. The principle and process of materials analysis and pathological analysis are quite similar. The difference is that the former deals with samples from matters, while the latter does biological tissue, especially from human bodies. Both of them use microscopes and analyzers to explore samples to find some features which may be connected to the issue under study. 

病理分析的結果通常是提供醫生治療病患者的參考資料，而材料分析的結果則是提供研究者或製程工程師製程改善的方向，以改善材料性質，或產品提高良率。在分析過程中，病理分析師有面對病毒的危險，而材料分析工程師則會面對酸鹼溶劑，甚至有毒物質的危險，二者工作過程和工作性質基本上很相似。

Doctors refer to results of pathological analysis to cure patients, researchers and engineers use results of materials analysis to tune the process to improve the properties of materials or yield. Pathologists have to face the risk of virus in work, MA engineers have to deal with acid-base solvent, some of them are toxic. So, nature of their works are similar too.