post-mitotic

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

a forest of tarantula hairs

colored SEM

skeletal muscle

yeah, I work out

colored TEM

I have no words for this

except

happy feet

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

a tumbleweed of human oral flora

(say that three times fast)

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human chromosomes and nucleus

"Chromosome Loss"

unknown technique

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

blood vessel endothelium, you are pretty and you are functional

I think I'm in love

colored SEM

stem cell in the eye of a needle

colored SEM

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

light microscopy

skin cancer koosh ball

colored SEM

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

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

rat brain: a mosaic of glia and neurons

fluorescence, 600x

phat

colored SEM

awkward purple yeast is awkward

colored SEM