Repost - Eye Candy

I'm away in California - while I'm gone, I'm reposting all these old entries on microscopy, enjoy!

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).

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OK this post was a warm up for today.
The Cytoskeleton. Now that's what you call a misnomer. It is one of the most fascinating, yet misunderstood, macromolecular assemblies of the cell.
There's a new paper in Dev Cell with a nice reconstruction of a fission yeast cell (S. pombe) with all its microtubules. From the abstract:
In this day, some biologist have to move beyond the simplistic view that the cell is a bag of M&Ms. What do I mean by that? It's the idea that enzymes and organelles are free floating entities within the cell.

Nice. Got a hi-res version?

By Obdulantist (not verified) on 31 Jul 2007 #permalink

Sure, when I get back east (next week) I'll dig through my files and get the original.

Thanks. Look forward to it.

By Obdulantist (not verified) on 03 Aug 2007 #permalink

Looks fantastic as my new wallpaper. Thanks again.

By Obdulantist (not verified) on 16 Aug 2007 #permalink

I'll have to dig through my old CDs to find the original pic. Glad you like it.