Image of the Month: Mouse breast tumor cells
Mouse mammary carcinoma 4T1 cells in pseudo-colored scanning electron micrographs. These mouse breast tumor cells (shown in these pseudo-colored scanning electron micrograph, are used to
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Image of the Month: Organizing DNA
A multi-institutional team spanning Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, Stanford University, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has reported the first successful
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Image of the Month — Carbon black nanoparticles at fault in emphysema
By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. Autopsies on smokers who died with severe emphysema reveal lungs that are black in appearance. These emphysematous lungs strain breathing structures
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Image of the Month – Cell-based trafficking of nanoparticles
Cell-based trafficking of nanoparticles is achieved through in situ uptake and transport of nanoparticles by myeloid cells. Shown here is the cell membrane of a
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Image of the month — DNA unwinds
DNA unwinds from Chromosome 20 at the 20q13 locus. SALL4 plays important roles in hematopoiesis (formation of blood cells) and leukemogenesis (initiating the blood cancer
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Image of the Month: Tunneling NanoTubes and macrophage communication.
Macrophages, gatekeepers of tissue integrity, are able to communicate at a distance through cellular connections coined Tunneling NanoTubes, membrane channels that contain actin and microtubules
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Image of the Month — Love for Vaccine Development
This is an image showing a heart-shaped aggregate of microparticles, which were formulated for the development of a vaccine against Chagas disease at the Sabin
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Image of the Month: Carbon nanotubes as cancer-fighting tools
This image courtesy of Scott Holmes, Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.
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Image of the Month — Graphene ribbon as an ideal scaffold.
The large surface area of graphene, a thin, tightly packed layer of carbon atoms, makes it an ideal scaffold to which you can attach a
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Image of the Month: Fruit flies and humans
Editor’s note: Much of the research that ends up benefiting humans starts in laboratories that focus on model animals such as fruit flies. They are
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