Exploring inside cells in 3D with electron microscope tomogram

Students at St. Olaf college took slices of Tetrahymena cells during mating and assembled them into a 3-D model of cytoskeletal structure. It shows the inner membranes of the connected cells (green) and the fibers that provide skeletal structure (red) involved in the mating process of the protozoan.

It’s a lot more complicated in there than textbooks make it look, and also more beautiful.

Previously: Cancer killing cells captured in 3-D, and a beautiful composite 3-D image of a (crowded) mammalian cell.

(via Lab Rat, Scientific American Blog Network)

Source: blogs.scientificamerican.com

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