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Category Archives: Microbiology

Marine Worms and Rat Neurons in Technicolor

From Medgadget, I find that Nikon has posted the winning photographs in its Small World competition for photomicrography - photographs of microscopic structures and critters.
They are so cool!
Here is a picture of a cedar leaf in cross section, using polarized light.

And here’s a marine worm using a technique called confocal photography (which is explained in [...]