[Maurice] is a photographer specializing in micrographs. These very large images of very small things are beautiful, but late last year he’s been limited by his equipment. He needed a new microscope, ...

High school biology didn’t do much to make cells seem like fascinating, psychedelic visual art. The plant and animal cell diagrams splashed across textbook pages are a world away from what the ...

A complete portrait of a cell requires a detailed description of its molecular topography: proteins must be linked to particular organelles. Immunocytochemical electron microscopy can reveal locations ...

Jack Challoner, Gills of a fish-like invertebrate (all images courtesy Jack Challoner, from ‘The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life‘) In 1665, when British polymathic scientist Robert ...

SECRETORY STRUCTURES OF AROMATIC AND MEDICINAL PLANTS : A REVIEW AND ATLAS OF MICROGRAPHS AUTHORS: KATERINA P SVOBODA AND TOMAS G SVOBODA MICROGRAPHS ANDREW D SYRED DESIGNED AND EDITED BY POLLY M ...

Colorized scanning electron micrographs of a B and T lymphocyte shown with a fluorescent microscopy image of the previously unseen "X lymphocyte," which is a hybrid of the other two immune cells.

Bacteriophage (colored transmission electron micrograph). Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria; this one, a T4 bacteriophage (orange), has just injected its viral DNA into an E. coli ...