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  • Macrophages infected with candida yeast, LM
  • Light micrograph of section of skin
  • Chocolate honeycomb
  • Developing pollen grains in a Chrysanthemum flower bud, LM
  • Epidermal cell surface on a salmon embryo, SEM
  • Rat spinal cord, LM
  • Muscle fibre
  • Section of the gut
  • Moth wing scales
  • Venus flytrap pollen grains, SEM
  • Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite
  • Osteoclast breaking down dentine, TEM
  • Osteoblast montage
  • Vitamin C imaged with polarised light. Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is an important vitamin, essential for collagen formation and wound healing, it also facilitates to absorption of iron. A good source of Vitamin C is found in a variety of fruit and vegetables, notably citrus friuts, kiwi and broccoli. It is a water soluble vitamin so is excreted by the body and, therefore, needs to be ingested regularly. A lack of Vitamin C causes scurvy.
  • Fungal spores on the surface of a fig, SEM
  • Feathery hairs on the top of a plant seed, SEM
  • Dermatofibroma, LM
  • Microplasma
  • HeLa cells
  • Artery cell
  • HeLa cells, LM
  • Head louse clinging onto strands of human hair, SEM
  • Convolvulus section.
  • Movie: 3D adult mouse skull
  • Epidermal cell surface on a salmon embryo, SEM
  • Osteocytes, canaliculi and haversian canals in bone, LM
  • Greenfly eye, SEM.
  • A bullet in the base of a skull, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • A bullet in the base of a skull, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.