#human lung

[microscope-world]

These are images of the human lung captured under a clinical microscope at 400x magnification.

[velvetlovebug]

[meiwoscience]

Although our lungs look symmetrical, they are actually asymmetrical: there are two lobes on the left and three on the right. The lung is the only organ in the human body that can float on water. Because the lungs have many alveoli. Adults have 300 to 500 million alveoli. Our lungs are filled with nearly 1 liter of gas at any time.

[microscope-world]

Human #lung captured under the lab microscope at 40x magnification.

[candidscience]

"Branching Morphogenesis"

Image courtesy Peter Lloyd Jones, Andrew Lucia, Annette Fierro, and Jenny E. Sabin, University of Pennsylvania

An art installation (detail pictured above) made of 75,000 looped cable ties, or zip ties, represents a network of forces created by human lung cells when, while forming capillaries, the lung cells push and pull on the protein matrix surrounding them.

Created at the University of Pennsylvania's Sabin Jones Lab Studio, "Branching Morphogenesis" includes five vertical, 11.5-foot-tall (3.5-meter-tall), interconnected layers of the ties—each representing a sequential point in time—which allows humans to explore a biological "datascape" of blood vessel formation.

"We hope to convey the inherent beauty of this secret world outside the cell that dictates how genes, and thus cells, behave," said molecular biologist Peter Lloyd Jones, noting that the construct also suggests possible architectural applications.

"Extraordinary and unexpected aesthetic qualities occurred as we put this together," Jones added.

Published in National Geographic Best Science Pictures February 18, 2010

[fuskida]

 Jewellery by Peggy Skemp - Handmade Sterling Silver Anatomical Human Lung Locket Necklace -source1-

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[thegreatcactus]

Normal people when eat chicken: Just eating chicken.

Hannibal fans when eat chicken: Pretending the chicken is a human lung and feeling like a cannibal.

[sciencenote]

Myosin in A549 Cells

Monolayer cultures of A549, a human lung carcinoma epithelial cell line, were fixed and stained with a fluorophore containing FITC to reveal myosin in the cytoskeletal network.