Nerve and glial cells in fruit fly embryo. Glial cells (stained green) in a fruit fly developing embryo have survived thanks to a signaling pathway initiated by neighboring nerve cells (stained red).

Photomicrograph of a midsaggital section showing the different components of the rat cerebellum, including Purkinje neurons in green, glia (non-neuronal cells) in red, and cell nuclei in blue. This i...

Widefield multiphoton fluorescence image of Rat hippocampus stained to reveal the distribution of glia (cyan), neurofilaments (green) and cell nuclei (yellow). 2nd Prize, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digit...

Confocal micrograph of astrocytes and oligodendrocytes from neural stem cells Astrocytes (green) and oligodendrocytes (red) derived from rat neural stem cells in culture. Both these cells are types of...

This confocal micrograph shows the detailed structure of the retina from a one-month-old mouse. The retina is the photoreceptive organ of the eye. It is composed of layers of neuronal cells that captu...

Developing fruit fly nerve cord. The glial cells (black dots) and nerve cells (brown bands) in this developing fruit fly nerve cord formed normally despite the absence of the SPITZ protein, which bloc...

Fluorescent micrograph of differentiating mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, meaning that they have the ability to differentiate into any cell type depending on th...

Confocal micrograph showing the Mesocephalic 5th nucleus in the brainstem. The nerve cell bodies are labelled with an antibody to neurofilaments (red) and the surrounding glial processes are labelled ...

Fluorescence image of a neuronal culture created by stitching together six images collected at 40x magnification. Honorable Mention, 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.

Confocal micrograph of neural stem cells transplanted into mouse brain Mouse neural stem cells, labelled with green fluorescent protein, have been transplanted into the brain of a newborn mouse and ar...