#MicroscopyTuesday: Rivers of Life

Blood vessels 🩸 are body’s highways, delivering fuel & removing waste. This image shows the growth of new vessels in liver. Cells close to vessels glow 🟨 & cell nuclei 🟪.

📸 Raquel Pérez Mateo (Zeißig Group)

#microscopy #liver #TUDresden #CRTD #CMCB #AGZeissig

#MicroscopyTuesday: Planes of a Worm

#CElegans, a small nematode worm, has just a single nerve cell that regulates sleep. 💤 Despite that, it keeps providing scientists with key insights into sleep mechanisms! 🧠🚀

📸 Inka Busack, Bringmann Group, BIOTEC

🔬 #microscopytuesday: Butterfly wing 🦋

The image shows the red and white scales on the Papilio karna karna butterfly’s 🦋 eyespot wing pattern 🪽 under cross-polarized light. ✨

📸 Yin Chang, Politi Group

#biomaterials #AGPoliti #scienceisbeautiful

Today is #WorldCancerDay:

ℹ️ Did you know that cancer cells have different biomechanical properties than their surrounding tissue?

🔬Scientists in Taubenberg group at BIOTEC study how such changes affect the potential of cancer cells to metastasize and become more invasive.
#microscopytuesday