Some Friday cell porn for you.
Among other things, I used to be a cell biologist (which reminds me: I need to blog about Jenny’s mis-classification of me). I used to be able to spend hours simply peering down microscopes (more recently, swearing at confocal software) because it was so damned pretty. I miss that a little bit, and take any chance I can to nip over to UCL and get me some red/green fix.
GE Healthcare are running (yet another) competition where you can vote for your favourite picture and get a calendar. It’s a marketing exercise for their Cell Analyzer [sic] but hey, it’s Friday and the cells really are very pretty.
So very pretty and rather festive too!
wow, so cool.
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I was a chemist. We had sound effects to go with the pretty colours.
and smells. Don’t forget the smells (fond memories of the Dyson Perrins).
Beautiful!
why, thank you blushes
Nice Richard.
Hmmm, more recently I’ve spent quite a lot of time swearing at one of those GE Analyzers. When those things work, wow. But when they don’t (not infrequent) they can be infuriating. I suspect they were designed and engineered by the same people that make cars in the Nth America. You wouldn’t think that a little thing like making sure the platform stops in exactly the same position (+/- 0.5mm) each time when feeding plates was such a big deal. But try telling the robot arm that feeds the plates that! Ugly
Very lovely!
Heh. Got an email this afternoon from someone who works at GE. Anyone want a brochure?
What I want to know is, how did they fit that peacock under the objectives?
I got a calendar with pretty images like this at my recent job interview!! (Also a job, but, hey PRETTY COLOURS!!1!)
Ooooooh, purty!
Bleuch, Dyson Perrins (I averted my eyes to avoid the porn part).
Yeah, harder to avert one’s nose.
Great photograph
Well I could pinch it, but then I’d panic, and I’m sure you wouldn’t want that. OK I looked- it is beautiful (and quite clean).
I finally had a look at the link. I did hundreds of stainings that were a combination of number 19 and number 8. In other words, dammit, I should have submitted something. (My cells in one particular experiment. Here, they’re melanocytes stained with LAMP1 and TYRP1 to separately label melanosomes and lysosomes, to prove that my TYRP1 antibody wasn’t secretly labeling lysosomes and to appease the critics (read: committee) )
Having not thought about this all weekend, I dreamed I was trying to show someone some staining I’d done with their antibody on my cells. And I couldn’t find the right experiment in my lab book.
I am teh jealous. The most colourful thing I ever got to look at in my work were cells that didn’t-quite transfect with GFP.
The rest of it was very, very monochromatic… Southern blots, S-35 sequencing gels (yes, yes, I know) and the like. 🙁
so, do Cell Biologists have the prettiest toys?