A 3-D composite image of many layers of a cell. Each organelle is color-coded (I honestly can’t even see which is which here). Textbooks like to show the cell as a bag of water filled with a few sparse organelles. In reality, it’s much more like Manhattan at lunchtime, teeming and crawling with molecules and organelles, bumping and grinding and sliding their way through the processes of life. (via Cellular Metro, image by Kathryn Howell)
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A 3-D composite image of many layers of a cell. Each organelle is color-coded (I honestly can’t even see which is which here).

Textbooks like to show the cell as a bag of water filled with a few sparse organelles. In reality, it’s much more like Manhattan at lunchtime, teeming and crawling with molecules and organelles, bumping and grinding and sliding their way through the processes of life.

(via Cellular Metro, image by Kathryn Howell)

Source: publications.nigms.nih.gov

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