I haven't done one of these in a while. Last Thursday, Stephan and I "imaged" some macrophages being infected with a vicious strain of vibrio, here's a cool image of one of the poor suckers:
The macrophage is on the top right, a few vibrio cells can be seen on the lower left. Note that the macrophage has all these funky tubes coming out of it.
(Yet again tubes ... my thesis adviser's lab would refer to microtubules as "tubes" too. They're everywhere!)
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