Heatwave = sitting inside a dark room and doing some work. It's funny I'm laptopless, and my life still revolves around computers (this one is attached to my microscope). Since I haven't been keeping up with the latest, all I have to show you are some nice pics of Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER). Enjoy:
Here's a closer shot (different cell):
Here is just a picture of fluorescent protein in a hepathocyte (kidney cell). Note the negative stain (absence of fluorescence) labels some organelles and some filaments:
And last, here is a cell expressing a fluorescent ER marker, but the poor cell just has too many nuclei (large negatively stained circles) and is full of vacuolar-like organelles (smaller circles) - this guy looks a little constipated:
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