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Image of the Week – June 22, 2020

CIL:11397 - http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/11397

Description: Figure 218 from Chapter 7 (Mitochondria) of 'The Cell, 2nd Ed.' by Don W. Fawcett M.D. The typical structural organization of mitochondria is revealed in this longitudinal section of a mitochondrion and surrounding cytoplasm from pancreas of the bat, Myotis lucifugus. It is bounded by a smooth outer membrane about 7nm thick. An inner membrane has infoldings called cristae that project into the interior of the organelle.

Author: Keith Porter

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Cheers! Image of the Week – June 15, 2020

CIL:41635 - http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/41635

Description: Fluorescent image of the sporangium, an enclosure in which spores are formed, of the slime mold Craterium minutum. Honorable Mention, 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.

Authors: Dalibor Matýsek and 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®

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Image of the Week – June 8, 2020

CIL:12375 - http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/12375

Description: Movie showing the dynamics of kinetchore microtubules during meiosis II in primary spermatocytes of the crane-fly Nephrotoma suturalis that were experimentally flattened. Time-lapse polarization microscopy using a Nikon Microphot SA, equipped for liquid crystal polarized light microscopy (LC-PolScope, CRi, Woburn Massachusetts) 60x/1.4 PlanApo oil immersion objective, 1.4 NA oil imm. condenser, with 2.0x zoom lens. Images captured every 15 sec using a QImaging Retigo EXi CCD camera. Raw images were processed using 5-frame algorithm (Shribak and Oldenbourg, 2003). The time series used for the movie is included in this grouped set.

Authors: James R. LaFountain and Rudolf Oldenbourg

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Image of the Week – June 1, 2020

CIL:50519 - http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/50519

Description: We examined the structural organization of cytoskeletal components and membrane systems in neurons of well preserved biopsy material from Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Information was obtained from thin sectioned material using conventional electron microscopy and from thick sections with the high voltage electron microscope. Stereo viewing and computer assisted serial reconstruction techniques were employed to visualize three-dimensional relationships among cytoplasmic components of cortical neurons.

Authors: Mark Ellisman, Rama Ranganathan, Thomas Deerinck, Stephen Young, David Hessler, and Robert Terry

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You’ve Got Some Nerve! Image of the Week – February 17, 2020

CIL:41833 - http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/41833

Description: Confocal micrograph showing the complex connectivity at the neuromuscular junction of Drosophila (fruit fly). Muscle fibers shown in red and nerve fibers into neuromuscular junction shown in blue and green. Honorable Mention, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.

Authors: Timothy Mosca and 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®

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You Dirty Rat! Image of the Week – February 10, 2020

CIL:48107 - http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/48107

Description: Differentiated rat neural stem cells stained for β III-Tubulin (in blue) to reveal neurons and GFAP (in red) to reveal glial cells.

Authors: Natalie Prigozhina

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Dinosaur! Image of the Week – February 3, 2020

CIL:41919 - http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/41919

Description: Polarized light micrograph of Triceratops dinosaur parietal (skull) bone. Honorable Mention, 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.

Authors: Ellen-Thérèse Lamm and 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®

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Image of the Week – January 27, 2020

CIL:45553 - http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/45553

Description: Imaging an HIV infected dendritic cell reveals numerous viral particles at the tips of filopodia. Actin-based membrane extensions from the dendritic cell are phallodin stained (red). HIV particles (white) decorate the filopodial terminal ends. To label viral particles, a construct containing eGFP at the C-terminus of HIV matrix was expressed. The nucleus of the cell is stained with DAPI and is represented in cyan.

Author: Stuart Turville

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Coronavirus! -  Image of the Week – January 20, 2020

CCDB:6022 - http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/CCDB_6022

Project name: Membrane Modifications Induced by Corona Virus

Description: Electron tomography of African Green Monkey epithelial cells infected with SARS-coronavirus

Leaders: Kèvin Knoops, Abraham J. Koster, A. Mieke Mommaas, and Eric J. Snijder

Collaborators: Marjolein Kikkert, Sjoerd H.E. van den Worm, Jessika C. Zevenhoven-Dobbe, and Yvonne van der Meer

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Image of the Week - January 6, 2020

CIL:34603 - http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/34603

Description: A cross section of cilium through the cilium-basal body complex extending from the cilium to the transition zone between the cilium and basal body and ending at the proximal tip of the basal body. In cross section the 9 + 2 axoneme of the cilium stands out. The plasma membrane covers the axoneme and is continuous with the plasma membrane covering the cell body. Each doublet tilts inward to the tangent of the axonemal cylinder. Two arms, an inner arm and outer arm, extend from the complete microtubule of each doublet. These arms have ATPase activity and are called dyneins. They cause one doublet to slide against the adjacent doublet. Other protein links, like the spokes, in the axoneme are elastic and induce the characteristic bending of the cilium and prevent excess sliding as the doublets slide past each other. 

Author: Richard Allen

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Image of the Week - December 30, 2019

CIL:41488 - http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/41488

Description: Colorized scanning electron micrograph of pollen (blue) in anther (green) held by the filament (pink ) from Acacia dealbata grown in Ecuador, Provincia Pichincha.

Authors: Alexis Debut, Sara Guerra, and David Cabrera (graphic designer)

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Image of the Week – December 16, 2019

CIL:11397 - http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/11397

Description: Figure 218 from Chapter 7 (Mitochondria) of 'The Cell, 2nd Ed.' by Don W. Fawcett M.D. The typical structural organization of mitochondria is revealed in this longitudinal section of a mitochondrion and surrounding cytoplasm from pancreas of the bat, Myotis lucifugus. It is bounded by a smooth outer membrane about 7nm thick. An inner membrane has infoldings called cristae that project into the interior of the organelle. 

Authors: Keith Porter

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Image of the Week - November 25, 2019

CIL:41017 - http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/41017

Description: Laser scanning confocal micrograph of a water flea, Daphnia atkinsoni. This specimen has a "crown of thorns," a defensive trait induced in offspring only when the parents sense chemical cues released by one of their main predators, the tadpole shrimp Triops cancriformis. The water flea's exoskeleton (exterior structure, green) and subcellular details within the organism (nuclei - tiny blue dots) are both visible. First Prize, 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.

Authors: Jan Michels and the 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition

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Image of the Week – November 18, 2019

CIL:41311 - http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/41311

Description: Scanning electron microscope image of Penta lanceolata stigma (receptive surface for pollen).

Authors: Louisa Howard and Charles Daghlian

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Image of the Week – November 11, 2019

CIL:50647 - http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/50647

Description: Human umbilical vein endothelial cells stained initially for nuclei with DAPI (blue) and for vascular endothelial cadherin (red).

Authors: Ashwin Inala and Eileen Shiuan

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Spooky Eyes - Happy Halloween - Image of the Week - October 28, 2019

CIL:39022 - http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/39022

Description: Confocal micrograph showing the connections of the visual system in a four-day-old zebrafish embryo. Staining of the neurons, glia and optic nerve illustrate the connections between the retina and the brain. The retina is a multi-layered structure of retinal neurons that processes light information in the eye. The ganglion cell layer is closest to the bulb of the eye moving out towards the layer that contains the light sensitive cells - the rods and cones - towards the back of the retina. Both the retinal ganglion cell layers and photoreceptor cell layers are shown in cyan. The glial cells are shown in purple. The optic nerve (cyan) transmits information from the eye to the brain. The point at which the optic nerves meet is known as the optic chiasm.

Authors: Kara Cerveny and Steve Wilson

Licensing: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 UK)

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Image of the Week – October 21, 2019

CIL:48108 - http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/48108

Description: Differentiated rat neural stem cells stained for β III-Tubulin (in green) to reveal neurons, GFAP (in red) to reveal glial cells, and DAPI (in blue) to label nuclei.

Authors: Natalie Prigozhina

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