Picture of the Week
Underwater butterfly
In the Leptin Group, Eva Hasel investigates the innate immune system in Japanese rice…
The birth of tentacles
The image shown here, taken by Anniek Stokkermans from EMBL’s Ikmi Group, shows a larva of Nematostella…
Ring of fire
This image has been composed from thousands of individual super-resolution microscopy images. It was created by Markus Mund in the Ries…
Skittles for science
What might also be an artistic representation of a scattered bowl of Skittles is actually a 3D reconstruction of a high-pressure frozen HeLa…
Tumour takeover
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women. It is so deadly because tumours often return after successful cancer…
Birth of two HeLa stars
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…
Skin mosaic
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…
EMBL makes insulin visible
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…
Inside out, and grub becomes fly
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…
A perfect model
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…
Bringing life science to you
EMBL not only produces excellent science and innovative technologies; it also shares its knowledge and experience with partners from around the world…
The zebrafish earned its stripes
Despite missing the characteristic stripes one would expect from a zebra – or a zebrafish – the fractals in this Picture of the Week show a…
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