Thursday, October 21, 2010

Microscopic Photography

To start things off these are cacodylic acid crystals. These chemical compounds were used in "agent blue" during the vietnam war.

This is a arabidopsis or a seedling root hair. It is a living specimen take a 3000x magnification.

This little critter is a mollusk. The baby bivalve, which is part of the Limidae family, swims like a scallop by clapping its shells together.

Above is a picture of two human cancer cells right before they divide into four cells. They're derived from the now famous "HeLa" line of cancer cells, which were taken from Henrietta Lacks in 1951 and used for medical research without her permission.

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