Friday, October 24, 2008

Science Friday

This is a picture that I took at work today. Any guesses at what it is? I'll give you a hint, it's mouse tissue that has been fluorescently labeled in order to visualize specific structures within the tissue. The blue dots are the nuclei of the cells that make up the tissue and the green is marking a structure called the basement membrane. Ok, enough hints. Give me your best guess.

7 comments:

Stephen Kohl said...

Based on what you have talked about before I would say it's the mouse's stomach lining.

Steve K

Elaine said...

Close but no cigar, Steve.

Allison said...

mouse intestines...it's circular

Elaine said...

We have a winner!

Allison said...

Hehe...I secretly just wanted to beat Steve :) I think you could sell these pictures as artwork...you could open an etsy account.

melanie said...

Well,
I was sooo going to say mouse intestines.
Really. Dangit, Allison.

Anonymous said...

Nice work!