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A Biological Web – Networking Units of Life
Jaishankar K. Kutty and Ken Webb
Human fibroblasts are cells that provide the structure of many tissues. In this image, these cells can be seen spreading within a semi-interpenetrating network (semi-IPN) made of a polymer ...
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Cypria
Andrew Mount, Joshua Mount, and Neeraj Gohad
Pseudo colored electron micrograph of the cyprid larvae of barnacle (Amphibalanus amphitrite). The golden colored tissue bordering the antennule opening is a chloride transport epithelium. It’s ...
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Goddess of the Sea
Joshua Mount, Neeraj Gohad, and Andrew Mount
A pseudo-colored scanning electron micrograph shows the presence of chloride transport epithelium involved in salt balance on the cirri (feeding apparatus) of the adult barnacle (Amphibalanus ...
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Cranial Anatomy of Hawaiian Goby Fish
Takashi Maie
The design and shape of anatomical structures can have a major impact on the ability of animals to perform specific functions and, as a result, is often associated with aspects of species ...
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Size-Manipulated Sea Urchin Larvae
Amy Moran, Jon Allen
When blastomeres, or groups of cells, of dividing sea urchin embryos are separated at the 2- and 4-cell stage, they develop into 'normal' but miniaturized larvae. This provides a unique system ...
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Chance Favors the Prepared, Green Frog in Pitcher Plant
Kathy Kegley
A green tree frog (hyla cinera) rests inside a yellow trumpet pitcher plant (Sarracencia flava) in Francis Marion National Forest. The pitcher plant attracts insects which often become trapped ...
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Silver Tiger
Chad Sosolik, Russell Lake, Niru Maheswaranathan
Using a scanning tunneling microscope or STM we have created and imaged a highly-recognizable imprint in the surface of a pure silver (Ag) surface. The artist has used the STM to indent the ...
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Floating Mines
Yonnie Wu
Cancer cells (CACO-2) transform into floating, mine-like, tubular straw cells under the stress of dehydration. The straw cells are highly hydrophilic (water-loving) and mobile in extracellular ...
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Bio- Inspired Hydrophobic Nanoroughened Surfaces from Processable Hybrid Composites
Stephen M. Budy, Scott T. Iacono
This is the first example of processable, semi-fluorinated perfluorocyclobutyl (PFCB) aryl either polymers covalently bound to pendant polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) cages. The ...
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Chianti
Sijie Lin, Josh Mount, Xi Wang and Pu-Chun Ke
The fluorescence image was taken by a Zeiss LSM 510 confocal scanning microscope. It shows the cross sections of approximately fifty HT-29 colon cancer cells labeled with lipophilic dye Dil. ...
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Chorides or not Chlorides? That is the Question
Philippe De Vivies
An unknown iron corrosion product; a formation from an archaeological artifact, soaking in a caustic solution.
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Crystal in the Sludge
Meg Iannacone, Justin Lapp
Scanning electron micrograph image of a gypsum crystal cluster speckled with fly ash glass spheres. This crystal is a remnant of a process used at coal-fired power plants to remove sulfur ...
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Floret- PbSe sub micro self-assembled nested structure
Xiaobahua Ji, Jian He, Bo Zhang, Terry Tritt
Illustrated is a Lead Selenide (PbSe) self-assembled nested structure, giving it enhanced properties due to the quantum effect of the structure. PbSe is one of the most important thermoelectric ...
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Flower of Tis2
Bo Zhang, Nick Gothard, Dr. Terry M. Tritt
This Scanning Election Microscopy (SEM) picture clearly reveals that the nanolayers of titanium disulfide (TiS2) are successfully obtained in the form of blossoming flowers. The structures are ...
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Hail to the Nauplius! (King and Son of Poseidon)
Neeraj Gohad, Joshua Mount, Andrew Mount
This is a confocal laser scanning microscopy image of the nauplius larval stage of the barnacle (Amphibalanus amphitrite). The fluorescence signal is pseudo-colored to visualize mitochondria ...
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Nano Honeycomb
Wei Wang
When aluminum is anodized in a suitable oxidizing acid, a two dimensional hexagonal network of quasi-periodic Al2O3 cells with uniform tubular pores is formed. The structure consists of a close ...
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