INTRODUCTION The inherent beauty of science has recently become more accessible to the general public due to an escalation in the publication of multi-color computer-generated graphics images as well as photomi-crographs and other images of scientific interest. These images are appearing on the covers of many scientific and trade periodicals (currently numbering over 250) where they serve as ey...

Results have been presented of the application of a simplified technique of ultraviolet photomicrography to a study of the specific lesions in muscle in subjects with progressive muscular dystrophy. An exact description of the histological changes occurring in this syndrome, as revealed by photomicrographs in ultraviolet light, is difficult at this time because of the lack of an adequate system...

The Olympus–Current Biology photomicrography competition This spectacular image of mitosis in a newt lung cell is the winning entry in the Olympus–Current Biology photomicrography competition. — using epithelial lung cells of the Northwestern rough skinned newt (Taricha granulosa). This cell is in late anaphase or early telophase of mitosis. Three fluorescent probes have been used to reveal dif...

The retrogradely traced ganglion cells — cell bodies, dendrites and axons — are coloured in yellow. The arborization of the dendrites is clearly visible between the sparsely distributed axons in the centre of the image, whereas the cell bodies at the top left are covered by prominent axon bundles. The ganglion cells were labelled by sticking a crystal of DiI into the stump of the optic nerve af...

In the preparation of the material and the interpretation of the results, I have had the cooperation of Dr. Mary B. Stark of the Flower Hospital Staff and the assistance of Miss A. K. Marshall of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. The photographs which accompany this paper are sufficiently described in the titles and need not be specifically dealt with here. 1 Lucas, "An Introduction to Ultra-Vio...