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  • Cartilage, trabecular bone and bone marrow in a mouse femur
  • Paneth cells
  • Sunrise in the eye: zebrafish retina
  • Cell division and gene expression in plant cells
  • Stoma and chloroplasts of maize leaf
  • Gene expression in plants
  • Gene expression in plants
  • Healthy adult human brain viewed from above, tractography
  • Healthy adult human brain viewed face on, tractography
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half