Above- a sand dollar stripped of soft tissues, revealing the porous endoskeleton or stereom. SEM image by Wolf Fahrenbach. 
Tag Archive | SEM
Cytoskeleton
The distance between each tick mark is 400nm (= 0.0004mm, or 1/2500th of a millimeter).
A veil comprised of bundles of cytoskeletal filaments lies atop the nucleus of a detergent-extracted CHO cell. While these fibers have a structural purpose, they are also vital to numerous reactions and cellular events- they continually form, dissolve, then reemerge- they are anything but static.
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Mirror
Broken proboscis and reflection- lying in the silent, bone dry desert inside a scanning electron microscope. More on mirrors, electron mirrors– soon.
~~~ Lace Exoskeleton ~~~ 