Toxicology Unit, UK, is a runner-up in this year's Current Biology photomicrography competition. It shows the normal relationship between Purkinje's neurons (red) and glial cells (green) in the rat cerebellum. Connections between the glial cells and the cell bodies, axons and dendrites of the Perkinje cells show that these interact closely. Two morphologically different types of green glial cel...

Hoffman, Heiner (New York University, New York, N.Y.), and Michael E. Frank. Synchrony of division in clonal microcolonies of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 89:513-517. 1965.-A common pattern of synchrony of division was found in 18 clonal microcolonies studied by means of time-lapse photomicrography. One of these is described in detail. Cell counts at 1-min intervals were carried into the 11t...

This study aimed to develop and test an unbiased and rapid methodology to estimate the length of external arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) hyphae in soil. The traditional visual gridline intersection (VGI) method, which consists in a direct visual examination of the intersections of hyphae with gridlines on a microscope eyepiece after aqueous extraction, membrane-filtration, and staining (e....

No, it’s not a painting by Jackson Pollock but the winning entry in the Olympus–Current Biology photomicrography competition. This image of neurons from the rat cerebral cortex was produced by Ger Ramakers, at the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam, using cultured 23-day fetal rat cerebral cortex. The image shows GABA-containing neurons (green) and an aspartate-containing neuro...

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