Medically accurate model of a cell

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Caffeine crystals under polarized light at 200X

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Anaphase of Root Tip Cell Clearly Visible

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It was pretty cool seeing my own chromosomes. Spent a good amount of time looking through a microscope during undergrad research. Thought I would share one of the “woah” moments.

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Thanks to the lovely people of this sub!!

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I love Tardigrades. So I made one without having to use a microscope to find it. 😄I hope you enjoy it!

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ASM Agar Art Contest 2018, 1st Place. The battle of winter and spring, Ana Tsitsishvili, Undergraduate Student, Agricultural University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.

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Any ideas on what that is? Found on some spider silk and about 400nm in diameter.

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I am a PhD student working with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope, last year I wrote my name with atoms and you asked me for a nanopenis. Here you have it.

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my sad tears under the microscope

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Not the best photo, but a picture of a fruit flies leg.

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Microscopic image of a pumpkin stem cell

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A pair of newborn baby octopus under the microscope

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Histology is beautiful

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Mushroom spores (I think, they may just be normal cells) from a random mushroom in my backyard!

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The laboratory set up, at last.

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Picture of a ticks hypostome (the thing at the front that pierces your skin) after I removed it from my belly ...

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Cat's tongue unedr an electron microscope

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Cat's tongue under an electron microscope

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Cross-section of a giant reed grass leaf!

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Hey Guys! I want to share with you what my microscope has captured! (plant spike VS toothpick’s end)

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Ball Point Pen [70x]

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Taken my first year of undergrad! I don’t remember the microscope type or what we were looking at, but I’ve had this picture for years with no reason until now!

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My (human) hair splitting

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Shrimpy Copepod bumps into a bubble (40x Darkfield)

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Beautiful rotifer I found yesterday

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Smiley RBC with a platelet as a hat (x50)

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An Ostracod Makin' their way downtown (10x Darkfield)

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Bad ear mite infection-very itchy

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E16 (16 days old) mouse embryos, 10x

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My old Zeiss scope at work

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Photo of a Taenia solium, with is head turned inside out using 200x magnification🔬

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Anomoeoneis sp. - Diatom frustule from a strew slide

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Diatoms

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Pollen in 50% honey-water solution. 100x

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Television up close.

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Can anyone tell me more about this microscope I’ve inherited from my biologist grandpa? How old is it? How do I take care of it properly?

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Nice Closterium / 200x / 6 image focus stack

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Idk anything about plants but they look pretty under a microscope

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Garage sale score!

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Found my first volvox!

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You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about

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Lymphoblastoid chromosomes, 100x oil lens

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Thrifted this microscope for $12 today. 5x, 15x, and 30x objectives, 10x ocular, and a single mirror light source. Looks to be from the 60’s/70’s.

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Fragilaria diatom colony from a fresh water lake.

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MICRO-COSMIC - food colouring and oils create some beautiful cosmic imagery

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Normal Human bronchial cells from a bronchial washing.

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Pain.

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Wallpaper - Darkfield Diatoms!

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snowflake using image stacking and that caused the colors

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Plankton Analysis is part of my job. Took this picture of a Pediastrum sp. yesterday. I’m hoping to continue improving my image capturing ability!

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Euglena Phacus Rotisserie Style (40x Obj)

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Appendix biopsy 100x & 400x (processed, cut, & stained by me) -- I always find these cells so pretty

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A tardigrade with eggs developing inside

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Made a stained plant cross section of Davidia involucrata

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We’ve all been there, right?

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Fracture Surface of Allen Wrench (last one, 1400x)

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My new scope 😄

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An unhealthy concentration of Dinos in my local lake

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Crustacean with fluorescent muscles

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Diatom mosaic

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Results of my first culture smear and gram stain

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A new kind of porn?

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Pine Needle Cross Section From My Christmas Tree 250X-400X

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Fluorescently labelled sperm [OC]

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Anyone know what this breakdancing larva is? (10x Brightfield) (Sammamish River, Redmond, WA)

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Stomata:)

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Favourite accidental discovery, zooming in on a Dandelion seed, finding a single grain of pollen.

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Any metallographers? 8620, Beraha’s 1, 50X

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My first successful microphotograph.

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First focus stack -

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ID? Some kind of sea slug?

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The things you see in BIO 2

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Help ID please! Took a sample off my dog with tape. 100x zoom

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Best Christmas gift I’ve ever received.

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Triangular silver nanoparticle. The lines in the particle are planes of atoms. (500,000x, TEM)

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Taken with child’s handheld toy microscope. Looked like a tiny see thru tick without magnification.

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Datura stramonium, also known as Devil’s Trumpet and Devil’s Snare. Flower of the plant with stomata chloroplast ring visible.

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Inherited a Nikon NI-U and don't know where to sell it/how much it should go for.

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Image of 23 pairs of human chromosomes • Magnification: 1000x + luminescent oil •Templates are collected from biological researchers

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For anyone that was curious about those cheap digital microscopes, not great, not terrible, but it gets the job done

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Tilia (Basswood) tree stem cross-section with central pith surrounded by 3 Xylem rings corresponding to 3 years of tree growth. Xylem is surrounded by the vascular cambium then the bark containing phloem, cork cambium, and finally the outer-most cork layer. 4x objective.

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Best image of a diatom I’ve ever gotten

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My blood under microscope [Unico G380]

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Clock Driver Microchip. 10X DIC, 40 images stitched together.

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Pollen of various plants. Darkfield epi-illumination, brightfield, DIC, phase contrast, autofluorescence. Ob. 40x, Pollen grains are immersed in oil. Tulipa, Aesculus hippocastanum, Lonicera tatarica, Pelargonium zonale, Dactylis glomerata, Deutzia gracilis, Plantago media, Aquilegia, Aronia

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I don't see Scanning Probe Microscopy images in this sub! I work with Scanning Tunelling Microscopes (STM), and yesterday I wrote my name with a bunch of atoms! I'll answer to your questions in the comments :)

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First day with my new T490B. I made a darkfield patch out of duct tape.

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New to microscopy. First image of a daphnia I found. This hobby is amazing (Swift 350T)

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First shot with a dark field filter.

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What is this 500 micron wide microorganism on my slide?

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Didn't have time to do a proper blood smear but i cut my finger so I threw it on a slide.

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Anyone else stack cover glasses like this instead of flat? Easier to grab imo

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Any ideas on what this is ?

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Sunflower pollen at 400x with phase contrast

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Found a huge cilliate. What is this ?

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Working on perfecting my phase-contrast setup and took some pictures with my phone to show the difference!

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Focus stacked tick

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Found this cool thing in concentrated fruit juice. Can someone help identify it? (400x mag.)

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This is a cross section of a 0.5mm mechanical pencil graphite. I took the image on a Helios 1200 AT (scanning electron microscope). Notice the 5 micron scale, these carbon sheets are about 1/1000 of a millimeter each. Image approximately 30,000x magnification.

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These things are driving me nuts- what are they!!

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A Coccolith

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So this is my phone under the microscope. Any guesses on what color it is showing? (Not red Green or blue)

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Second attempt to find Tardigrades, success! FOUND 3 in three consecutive slides. 400x.

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I feel watched...Some planarian at 250x

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Itchy fibers in my skin after cleaning old box of electronics, found 4 of them so far. From an animal, plant, or man-made? (1600X usb microscope)

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I've always wanted to get a microscope, but being a functional adult I always prioritize more important expenses. In the mean time I bought a $20 digital microscope from Amazon and I'm having so much fun. It's a lot better than I expected. (Hair from my two dogs).

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Drop of ketamine - Sarah Schonfeld

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Diatoms on a branch of seaweed, observed with electron microscopy (cryogenic SEM, falsely coloured)

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Vitamin C. 125x magnification in colour differential interference contrast.

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I inherited this microscope, but can't get to see anything from two of the objectives.

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Bee parts in my yogurt this morning (1x objective on stereo microscope)

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Are we still hosting Nematode dance parties? - Weowna Park, Bellevue, WA

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My new hobby 🦠

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Primary mouse cortical neurons harvested from embryos and grown in vitro

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After 2 weeks of trying to get this thing to work, it's finally going. This is a multimode AFM which our lab apparently got from IBM in the 90s. A real dinosaur.

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Louse in egg under the microscope

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Can anyone please show me this under a microscope if anyone has tried viewing one that way?

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Some Filamentous Green Algae I Found Today

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Found this strange creature in manky water. What is he?

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Wolf(?) Spider

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My very first Gram staining

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Post from r/telescopes. The snobby elitists are declaring war.

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Any idea what this beautiful thing is?

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What do you think I was looking at?

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Was given this BH2! What is it?!

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Do you guys have any idea what this could be?

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Just Finished Printing a DSLR Adaptor for my new Microscope (My First)

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[Genus Hydrodictyon] 'Water Net' algae, exhibiting its hexagonal lattice. (400x)

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Can anyone help me identify what this irregular body is near the nucleus? Onion cell with fountain pen ink as stain.

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Asbestos

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Diatom 'Anomoeoneis sphaerophora' - 40x/0.65 dry (1419x1640 pixel)

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How awesome do you think my images turned out?

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[ID Request] What sort of diatom live together in clear tubes like this? (Union Bay, Seattle, WA)

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Need ID on this odd thing

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I am very new into this hobby. One thing I have learned to be true is, nature is creepy and fascinating. But Mostly creepy. Not sure what it is for sure but I believe it to be a larvae of some sort... (100X Non oil objective)

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Just got a microscope! Here's some pics I got with my phone of blood cells. I'm super excited about this thing.

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Made an illustration and wanted to share here. Zooming in is a wonderful meditation and metaphor. You never know what you are going to find. Thanks friends.

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The lowest cost entry to the joys of using inverted microscopes

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Some of you guys have probably seen Journey to Microcosmos channel. I always love how the images look like and I’m wondering what kind of filters or objectives or condensers they used to see this. Does anybody know?

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