Category Archives: Microscopy

Back to the future: bone proteins discovered in 100 million year old fossil

By jyaron | Published: May 2, 2011
Exciting research published this week in PloS ONE suggests that biomolecular structures may persist in fossils far more abundantly and steadily as previously thought. Before this publication, two options were thought to exist for specifically identifying biomolecular structures: (1) you can find it in large bones buried in fluvial sandstone; or (2) you’re S.O.L. All [...]
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New Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques Directly Image Drug Delivery

By jyaron | Published: October 31, 2009
X Sunney Wei and others at Harvard University recently demonstrated a new technique for stimulated emission microscopy that allows high resolution imaging of generally non-fluorescent chromophores (such as drugs). This imaging technique relies on pumped laser sources and new techniques for obtaining the fluorescent emission streams. Use of this sort of microscopy could lead to [...]
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BioImage of the Week #2

By jyaron | Published: October 19, 2009
The BioImage for this week comes to us from GPMatthews’ personal website. The site contains a large collection of fascinating images and articles, particularly on the pages that contain images of diatoms. These unicellular organisms are like biology’s snowflakes and often offer some of the most interesting and complex patterns that can be visualized under [...]
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BioImage of the Week #1

By jyaron | Published: October 12, 2009
The image above is featured from Cornell University’s Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center. It is a gorgeous image of a bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells taken with laser scanning confocal microscopy techniques. The cell is stained with a three dye system showing: Tubulin: BODIPY FL-labelled tubulin antibody Actin: Texas Red-X phalloidin Nucleus/Chromosomes: Texas Red-X phalloidin [...]
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36 Beautiful and Amazing Biology-themed T-Shirts

By jyaron | Published: September 11, 2009
What better way to celebrate your love of biology than to wear it proudly for everyone to see? Here is a collection of 36 beautiful, clever, and hilarious biology-themed t-shirts. The rest of the shirts after the break.
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5 Great Online Tools for Biologists

By jyaron | Published: August 9, 2009
Biology (and its related fields) are less and less frequently sciences that must only be studied in the field. There are a great number of resources online that can aid biologists and researchers in expanding the productivity of their research. Here are 5 great online tools for biologists and researchers. 1. BLAST Database The NCBI [...]
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