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A nuclear reactor starting up
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Engineered Organs
The Anatomy of the Human Body by William Cheselden, 1750
Is it normal to have a favorite protein transporter? Because ours in the antiporter.
My fav little boyzzzz, so cute π€
THIS IS A TARDIGRADE APPRECIATION POST
Journey to the Microcosmos: Tardigrades: Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal
The construction of the hand
A lithograph by J.A. Vinter, 1868
3 layers of the hand, the bones, muscles and skin.
So, here is my two new friends (both of them are my Christmas presents): Henry (dedicated to Henry Winters of course) β who is a vintage porcelain phrenological head, and Lucius Manulius β he is a fragment of beaver's scull. If they meet Oscar (who is my Venuse's Fern plant, living in the kitchen), they can throw a great bacchanalia I think.
Via Reddit: xkelsx1
Pink gloves make the world a better place π
β The Source Book Encyclopedia, 1930
Awesome π
What does it take to teach a bee to use tools? A little time, a good teacher and an enticing incentive. Read more here: http://to.pbs.org/2mpRUAz
Credit: O.J. Loukola et al., Science (2017)
Untold stories behind the mice that are included in honorable mentions.
Hematopoietic stem cells ready for re-injection. Image from Steve Gschmeisserner.
Today I began my lectures about in vitro. What in vitro is? The technique or process of maintaining or cultivating cells or tissues derived from a living organism in a culture medium. In vitro literally means βin glassβ. On a picture we can see plant culture. π§ͺπ±
This is chlorophyll A, who change colour π->β€οΈ, when we highlight him.
We can see fluorescence only when we release chlorophyll molecules from chloroplasts. Chlorophyll fluorescence is light re-emitted by chlorophyll molecules during return from excited to non-excited states.
Exams are getting closer. I'm drinking coffe and preparing for an oral answer about Y2H. Yeast two-hybrid system is a method for identifying interactions between proteins.
My plants update π±
Today I made Traube cells experiment, it's awesome π A Traube cell is an "artificial cell" created by Moritz Traube in order to study the processes of living cells, including growth and osmosis. The Traube cell is not a true artificial cell, as it is not living and does not have true biological process, but it looks like plants π±
Bioprocess engineering in practice. Long & funny sunday π
Me, smoothie & bioprocess engineering.
Me, coffe & genetic engineering.