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  • GABAergic neurons in the Zebrafish
  • Melanocyte deficient in myosin 5a
  • Vanillin crystals, LM
  • Mitchell's equation II
  • Human saliva displaying ferning. During the fertile phase of a woman's menstrual cycle an oestrogen surge causes salt crystals to appear in the saliva. When viewed under the microscope the crystalline salt structure resembles fern leaves and can be used as an indication of a woman's increased chances of conceiving at this time.
  • Prostate cancer cell spheroid, LM
  • Prostate cancer cells treated with nano sized drug carriers
  • Fargesia rufa T.P.Yi Poaceae. Farges bamboo. Distribution: China. Named, in 1985, after Paul Guillaume Farges (1844-1912), a French missionary and plant collector, who went in 1867 with the Missions Étrangères to north-east Szechuan. He botanised extensively and amassed 4,000 herbarium specimens which he sent back o France. He discovered and sent back seeds of the handkerchief tree, Davidia involucrata, one of which germinated after 18 months. Eighty plants have been named after him. (Cox, 1945
  • 3D depth-coloured transparent mouse mammary gland
  • Cell division in a live zebrafish embryo
  • Head of a mealworm, SEM
  • Danae racemosa (L.) Moench Asparagaceae. Alexandrian or Poet's laurel. Distribution: Turkey to Iran. A monotypic genus with supreme adaptation to dry conditions, bearing its flowers and fruits on phylloclades, leaf like expanded stems. The phylloclades are too thick for sunlight to pass through so have chlorophyll containing cells on both sides (the cells in the middle do not) and stomata on both sides to facilitate CO2 diffusion into the plant. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Woodlouse, SEM
  • Muscle fibres, Drosophila embryo
  • Light wall moss leaf
  • Origanum vulgare 'Compactum'
  • Mouse brain capillaries, SEM
  • Euglena in green
  • Bacterial microbiome mapping, bioartistic experiment
  • Human brain cancer stem cells, SEM
  • Bacterial microbiome mapping, bioartistic experiment
  • Dividing HeLa cells, LM
  • Prostate cancer cell, SEM
  • Venus flytrap pollen grains, SEM
  • Reseda lutea L. Resedaceae Wild Mignonette. Dyers Rocket. Herbaceous plant. Distribution: Eurasia and North Africa. This plant, and in particular R. luteola, is the source of 'weld' a yellow dye from luteolin a flavonoid in the sap. It is said to have been used since the first millennium BC, but curiously Dioscorides, Lyte, Gerard, Lobel, Fuchs, Coles, Quincy, Linnaeus (1782) either do not mention it or make it synonymous with Eruca, Rocket, and make no reference to it as a dye source. The name Resedo means 'I sit up' in Latin, which Stearn (1994) interprets as 'I heal' which makes its absence even more strange. It is noted as the dye source by Bentley (1861). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Prostate cancer cells treated with nano sized drug carriers
  • Kidney stone
  • Buddleia (Buddleja davidii) leaf
  • Origin of life
  • Platanus orientalis subsp insularis