Electron Microscope Images

Seven of the best sites for images taken via electron microscopes. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page. (Related searches: Antique Microscope, Extatosoma Tiaratum, Measles)

1. MicroAngela’s Electron Microscope Image Gallery - Large gallery of colorized pictures from electron microscopes, including insects such as the ant, fruit fly, cockroach and more, as well as red blood cells, mold and bacteria, sea creatures, more. (www5.pbrc.hawaii.edu)

2. Ugly Bugs - April, 2008 blog post brings together a wide range of insects as seen through electron microscopes, including magnified pictures of a mosquito, spider, moth, dust mite, beetle, centipede, screw worm, more. (www.mentalfloss.com)

3. Albert Lleal SEM Colored Microphotography - Photographer offers a portfolio of 10 colorized images obtained via scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Doesn’t describe what we’re seeing, but it appears to be pictures of insects, plants, invertebrates. (www.albertlleal.com)

4. Scanning Electron Microscope at Museum of Science, Boston - Go here for a virtual exhibit that shows how images are created using a scanning electron microscope (SEM), and see SEM pictures including fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, toilet paper, salt, a black widow spider claw, more. (mos.org)

5. Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility Images - Gallery of images taken from scanning and transmission electron microscopes, including algae, bacteria, plant cells, bugs, mammal cells / organs, sea urchins, volcanic ash, more. (remf.dartmouth.edu)

6. Electron Microscopic Atlas of Cells, Tissues and Organs in the Internet - If you have more than just a passing interest in seeing microscopic things blown up in size, these pictures are for you. Hundreds of pictures of the nucleus of a cell, cytoplasm, ribosomes, mitochondria, cilia, synapses, bone marrow, arteries, taste buds, hair, and more scientific stuff taken from humans and other mammals, using transmission electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. (www.uni-mainz.de)

7. A Microscopist’s View of Chromosome Organization - Scientific article features electron microscope images of chromosomes. Otherwise, we don’t really understand what it’s talking about. (cellbio.utmb.edu)

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