Liver sinusoid of a Brown Rat with fenestrated endothelial cells. Sinusoidal width is about 5 microns. Original magnification is 10,000x . Note the microvilli of hepatocytes in the space of Disse exte...

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a a grain of pollen from a peony plant. Peonies are herbaceous plants native to Asia, Southern Europe and Northern America.

A Nomarski differential interference micrograph of a filament of Nostoc sp, a nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium.

Confocal image showing damaged collagen fibres in a ruptured tendon. The area of wavey fibres to the lower right shows the normal healthy appearence of tendon. The waviness allows the whole tendon to ...

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an open stoma on the surface of a leaf of lettuce (Lactuca sativa). A stoma is a small pore found on the underside of plant leaves and stems that allow for ga...

Scanning electron micrograph of the Drosophila compound eye. Close-up shows the multi-faceted cornea (pink) and the thin, hair-like structures called setae (green) which are believed to reduce glare.

Scanning electron micrograph of coralline algae. Coralline algae are characterized by a thallus that is hard because of calcareous deposits contained within the cell walls.

Solitary coral, Fungia sp. The tentacle tips, called acrospheres, are visibly enhanced using a technique developed for doing epfluorescence without a barrierfilter. Third Prize, 2010 Olympus BioScape...

Chicken basilar papilla (cochlea) hair bundles imaged with field-emission scanning electron microscope.

Colorized image of Bidens Ferulifolia pollen on plant structures collected with a dual beam SEM/FIB microscope.