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stapes, the stirrup of our auditory system and one of the three middle ear bones responsible for transmitting sound to the oval window

colored SEM

credit: Steve Gschmeissner

#ear #hearing #microscopy #anatomy #science

a forest of tarantula hairs

colored SEM

credit: Steve Schmeissner

#spider #tarantula #hair #microscopy #science #nature

skeletal muscle

yeah, I work out

colored TEM

credit: Steve Gschmeissner

#muscle #microscopy #biology #science #medicine

I have no words for this

except

happy feet

colored SEM of the retracting foot of a bdelloid rotifer (organism related to roundworms)

credit: Cell Picture Show

#worm #science #microscopy #funny #smile #biology #invertebrate #animal #bug

a tumbleweed of human oral flora

(say that three times fast)

colored SEM

credit: Steve Gschmeissner

#bacteria #mouth #science #medicine #microbiology #microscopy

human chromosomes and nucleus

credit: Andrew Syred & Cheryl Power

#chromsomes #nucleus #cells #science #microscopy

"Chromosome Loss"

unknown technique

credit: Paul Andrews

#chromosomes #cells #mitosis #science #microscopy

Godzilla blood

like those of birds, reptilian red blood cells are flatter and more oblong than their mammalian counterparts (and they're nucleated)

colored SEM

credit: Steve Gschmeissner

#reptile #lizard #blood #cells #science #microscopy

blood vessel endothelium, you are pretty and you are functional

I think I'm in love

colored SEM

credit: Steve Gschmeissner

#blood #microscopy #cells #science #medicine

stem cell in the eye of a needle

colored SEM

credit: Steve Gschmeissner

#needle #stem cell #cells #Microscopy #science #medicine

cultured adipocytes (fat cells) with bead-like lipid inclusions

light microscopy

credit: Shingo Kajimura

#fat #adipose #science #microscopy #histology

skin cancer koosh ball

colored SEM

credit: Steve Gschmeissner

#cancer #cell #skin #medicine #pathology #microscopy #science

microscopic bone marrow transplant -- hematopoietic stem cells (the immortal source of both red and white blood cells) poised in a syringe for transplant

colored SEM composite image

credit: Steve Gschmeissner

#needle #medicine #cells #cancer #bone #science #microscopy

like a sapphire in the rough, the majestic glomerulus studs the otherwise boring renal parenchyma with its raw beauty

(originally I was going to compose a haiku to honor the magnificence of this micrograph, but glomerulus has an inordinate number of syllables)

colored SEM

credit: Steve Gschmeissner

#kidney #anatomy #microscopy #science #cells #sapphire

rat brain: a mosaic of glia and neurons

fluorescence, 600x

credit: Thomas Deerinck

#brain #neuroscience #cells #neurons #microscopy #histology #science

phat

colored SEM

credit: Steve Gschmeissner

#fat #adipose #cells #microscopy #science #medicine

awkward purple yeast is awkward

colored SEM

credit: Steve Gschmeissner

#yeast #cells #infection #microscopy #science #awkward

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