From the archives, here's a micrograph of a fibroblast (connective tissue cell) adherring to fibronectin coated coverslip. The cell was immunostained for regular microtubules (red) and modified detyrosinated microtubules (green, although since these are only partialy modified red+green = yellow).
Here are some strange crystals that appeared on my coverslip one day, I had just to take a picture:
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I'm away in California - while I'm gone, I'm reposting all these old entries on microscopy, enjoy!
You can find almost anything on Youtube.
Here is a video from Nikon (maker of great microscopes) of mouse fibroblasts (connective tissue cells) dividing and migrating around a coverslip.
Last week was demo week here at the Palazzo lab. Both Zeiss and Nikon dropped off their latest equipment and we had the chance to image some RNA. In addition we finally completed some badly needed lab renovations and as a result had an operation tissue culture area.
In my last post, I forgot to link to these great movies of migrating fibroblasts (available as online supplements to the arginylation paper
You should photoshop a little Enterprise racing away from the "supernova" in the top graphic.
Cool pic.
And what are these crystals? very interesting.
very nostalgic pictures!!!
I never found out. They look like sodium chloride crystals, however NaCl should have disolved in the staining media ... maybe the crystals were traped in an air bubble?