Office by Alex Penny
Metabolomic Eye by Bryan Williams Jones
This is the photograph that took first place in the 2011 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. In the image above, each color represents a different subset of cells that are present in the mouse eye. The winner employed a technique called computational molecular phenotyping (CMP) to map out the different kinds of tissue by probing out the concentrations of common organic molecules, in this case by using antibodies that stained against taurine (red) , glutamine (green) and glutamate (blue). Thus, the distribution of these molecules results in the colorful and informative image seen above.
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Science as Art: This computational molecular phenotype image of a mouse’s eye reveals the diversity of cell metabolism in the retina. (Image: Ryan William Jones/The University of Utah, Moran Eye Center)
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A 630-times magnification of cone cells (in red; cells that assist in color perception) captured in the retina of a monkey.
Image by Dr. Nicolás Cuenca, Universidad de Alicante.
All we ever talk about is the retina in my Sensation & Perception psych class and I found an artsier picture of one so yeah it’s getting p0st3d.
Retina I by Greg Dunn
Retina, Monkey, Choroid, Pigment Epithelium x20 (MB stain)
Arteries in the eye of a rodent. Image taken with confocal microscopy.
Image by Thomas Deernick, University of California, San Diego.
Photomicrograph of a vertical section of a chick retina. Rods and cones are shown at the top in grey.
Credit: Andy Fischer
The picture shows the pale and yellow ommatidial subtypes in a whole mounted Drosophila retina. The pale R8 are stained for the blue-sensitive Rhodopsin 5 (red) and the yellow R8 for the green-sensitive Rhodopsin 6 (green). Phalloidin (blue) stains all photoreceptors. Through a bistable loop the growth regulator melted and the tumor suppressor warts specify opposite cell fates in the R8. While warts and its partners hippo and salvador are necessary and sufficient to induce the yellow R8 fate, melted is sufficient to induce the pale R8 state. (via Drosophila Image Award - 2006)
(via scipsy)
Section of primate retina stained with antibodies against parvalbumin to identify horizontal cells (green) and calbindin (blue) to immunostain cones, cone bipolars and some types of amacrine and ganglion cells.
