In the Leptin Group, Eva Hasel investigates the innate immune system in Japanese rice…
The image shown here, taken by Anniek Stokkermans from EMBL’s Ikmi Group, shows a larva of Nematostella…
This image has been composed from thousands of individual super-resolution microscopy images. It was created by Markus Mund in the Ries…
What might also be an artistic representation of a scattered bowl of Skittles is actually a 3D reconstruction of a high-pressure frozen HeLa…
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women. It is so deadly because tumours often return after successful cancer…
This picture of the week, taken by Arina Rybina in the Ellenberg group at EMBL Heidelberg, shows a high-resolution 3D microscopy image of living…
This beautiful mosaic of mostly hexagonal cells is the outer skin layer of a zebrafish larva as seen under a microscope. Each skin cell exhibits a…
The hormone insulin helps to remove sugar from the blood after a meal. This is important, as in the long term high blood sugar levels damage our…
What look like dunes in the desert are actually muscles underneath the epidermis of a zebrafish embryo. The epidermis is patterned by ridges forming…
The three bluish blobs shown in the top right corner of this image may not resemble the sphere of noodles that is the human brain, but they are still…
Is it a fungus or a strange plant? Actually it’s the larval form of Platynereis – a group of marine ringed worms. Scientists have been using them…
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