#vacuole

[gregor-samsa-daily]

today's gregor samsa is: in a vacuole

requested by: anonymous

[cybernecrosista]

With some editing:

Beginning to render:

Ah.. blue. Gotta be one of my fav genders

[leonisglowing]

Yeah Im getting into even nerdier stuff (animal and plant cells and cell organelles) what about it. I love the mitochondria a lots and I like being creative. I think I just studied cells way too much I needed an output so here it is

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

[whats-in-a-sentence]

During cereal endosperm development, the triploid primary endosperm nucleus undergoes a series of mitotic divisions without cytokinesis, and the nuclei migrate to the periphery of the central cell, which also contains a large central vacuole (Figure 21.26, see parts A-D). As in the Arabidopsis coenocyte, each of nuclei is surrounded by radially arranged microtubules (see Figure 21.26E). Anticlinal walls form initially between adjacent nuclei, resulting in the tubelike alveolar cells, with the open end pointing toward the central vacuole (see Figure 21.26F). (...) The innermost layer of daughter cells remains alveolar in structure, and continues to divide periclinally until cellularization is complete (see Figure 21.26G and H). The most important source of starchy endosperm cells is the interior cells of the cell files that are present at the completion of endosperm cellularization (see Figure 21.26H).

"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.

[amoebasisters]

It's not hoarding if you're a vacuole!

[bpod-bpod]

Parasite Protection

Around the world, scientists tackle malaria by killing the mosquitos which spread the disease or protecting humans from bites – but what about those already infected? Antimalarial drugs aim to destroy parasites already circulating in the body, but also risk encouraging them to mutate and adapt. Yet there may be another way. Here lattice light-sheet microscopy uses gentle patterns of light to illuminate malarial parasites (blue) as they invade a cheerful-looking human blood cell (purple), possibly solving a long-term mystery. The protective bubble or vacuole that envelops the parasite as it invades is actually a chunk of membrane ripped away from the blood cell itself. A new generation of antimalarial medications might target molecules used in forming these vacuoles, stunting the parasite’s spread without giving it cause to mutate.

Written by John Ankers

Video from work by Niall D. Geoghegan and Cindy Evelyn, and colleagues

The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Nature Communications, June 2021

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[artistfromspace]

What if I finally finished making reference sheets for my main cast... and then immediately started redesigning the whole thing?

Would that be fucked up or what?

[imbadatcomingupwithnames]

*stabs vacuole with a straw like its capri-sun* drink up boys