Up close and personal [photos]

“Here you’ll experience the power of SEM in a journey of self-discovery that starts in your head, travels down through the chest and ends in the bowels of the abdomen. Along the way, you’ll see what’s normal, what happens when cells are twisted by cancer and what it looks like when an egg meets sperm for the first time.”

You will find 15 microscopic images of the following:

1. Red blood cells
2. Split end of a human hair
3. Purkinje neurons
4. Hair cell in the ear
5. Blood vessels emerging from the optic nerve
6. Tongue with taste bud
7. Tooth plaque
8. Blood clot
9. Alveoli in the lung
10. Lung cancer cell
11. Villi of small intestine
12. Human egg with coronal cells
13. Sperm on the surface of a human egg
14. Human embryo and sperm
15. Colored image of a 6-day old human embryo implanting

Lung cancer cells

Split end of human hair

Tooth plaque

Really interesting site!

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