Sunday 17 January 2010

Electron Microscope Images of Vertebrate Eyes.



http://www.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/cml/opt307/spr06/joe/index.htm

Interesting structural and physiological information, and microscopic images of vertebrate eyes in this paper.

Nerve Cells Live Double Lives: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091006104051.htm



I was searching for images of sensory cells and found this article. The complexity and sophistication of living organisms is incredible! This image of a mouses retina looks looks like a galaxy, nubula or exploding star. I am continually struck by the endless repetition of form, shape and pattern on both a cellular and cosmic scale, the human mind, human inginuity and the development of technology to record such things.

Cleaver little ganglia!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091006104051.htm