The radiating, kaleidoscopic pattern you see here was once the living glass skeleton – the cell wall – of a single-celled organism called a diatom. These organisms absorb silicon from their ...

What am I looking at? This is a colored scanning electron microscopy image of a human red blood cell infected with the parasite that causes malaria. The infected cell is blue (1), and the uninfected ...

What am I looking at? This is a tissue sample from a zebrafish heart and its surrounding tissues. The golden strands are the muscle cells (1) that make up the ventricle of its heart. The surrounding ...

What am I looking at? This is the head and upper thorax of a thistle mantis (Blepharopsis mendica).You can see its characteristic striped eyes (1), its antennae (2), its large claw-like front legs (3) ...

What am I looking at? This is an image of muscle fibers that were derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and grown in a lab. The scientists treated cells from a patient with DMD to ...

Beauty is all around us. It is everywhere our eyes can see – in the breathtaking majesty of snowcapped mountains, in the tranquil shores of tropical beaches, and in the faces of those we love. But ...

Activate students’ prior knowledge and surface questions by creating a K/W/L chart (what I know, what I want to know, and what I learned) about COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2. Given that this is a deeply ...

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Cell division is the process of a single cell turning into two nearly identical copies of itself. To do this, the original cell needs to make copies of all its cellular components, including its DNA.

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