An illuminated image of three different vascular tissues found within plants: xylem (conducts water from roots to leaves), phloem (conducts sugars and nutrients made in leaves to the rest of the plant), and meristem (area of new, active plant growth).
Image by Dr. Calzoni Gian Lorenzo, University of Bologna.
(via heythereuniverse)
Diatoms
Mitosis!
(Source: heythereuniverse)
Golgi apparatus :D
Our star.
Image description: This photo of red blood cells was taken with a scanning electron micrograph.
Image courtesy of the Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is part of a research project funded by a National Science Foundation grant to study quantitative phase imaging of cells and tissues.
Virtual scrapbook.
