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Cell division is the process by which a single cell turns into two copies of itself. Once the DNA and all the other cellular components have been moved to opposite ends of the cell, the cell can begin ...

Imagine living your life with a 10-foot–long straw fastened to your face, like this acorn weevil does. That protrusion, called a rostrum, is highly useful for the weevil, however, allowing it to feed ...

These spiked spheres enveloped by blue tendrils are pollen grains infected with parasitic fungi. Some evidence suggests that the fungus uses these pollen grains to travel to new locations and spread.

Actin proteins group together to form a network of thin filaments that spread throughout eukaryotic cells. These filaments are involved in giving the cell its structure, allowing the cell to move, and ...

Imagine going to the dentist with this set of teeth! These are teeth located on a snail’s “tongue,” or radula, also called a rasper, which is constantly licking the ground to scrape up and transport ...

A Snapshot of Cell Division This may look like a giant supernova in space, but it’s actually a microscopic image of cytoskeletal proteins and DNA in the metaphase stage of cell division. You can see ...

Igor Siwanowicz is a research scientist at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus. He earned his PhD at the Max Planck Institute in Germany in structural biochemistry, but his love for animals and nature, as ...

Take a visual journey through some of the major concepts in biology. These pathways to discovery were created by educators to help users explore various biological concepts. We would like to extend a ...

This video presents a kaleidoscope of colors within brain tissue, each of which represents a different protein within the tissue. The video was created using an innovative microscopy technique called ...

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