#imaging
Spooky science
This ghoulish image shows lung tissue structure.
Laura Sibley who took this image is part of a team from Royal Holloway, who are developing novel vaccines using bacteria (similar to ones that are used in probiotic drinks).
The vaccines they are creating are cheaper than normal vaccines, easier to produce and have no chemicals in them, making them suitable for diseases affecting developing countries. There are many diseases that need vaccine development, including tuberculosis, which kills around two million people per year, and is one of the diseases that they are focused on.
Laura stumbled across the ghostly vision in a study looking at TB vaccine distributed in lung tissue, work which in the future could help to protect people against TB infection.
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“Ánima del Animal” por Ana Igartúa
“Animal´s Soul” by Ana Igartúa
This picture is my attempt to pay homage to Luis Eduardo Aute, one of the greatest artists ever, a close and dear friend… He was and will always be a source of inspiration and motivation in my work and I will remain forever greatful to him for his encouragement to help me believe that I have “the eye”.
Esta imagen es un intento para rendirle homenaje a Luis Eduardo Aute, uno de los más grandes artistas, amigo cercano y queridísimo .. Él fue y seguirá siendo fuente de inspiración y motivación en mi trabajo. Le estaré por siempre agradecida por su empeño en hacerme creer que tengo “mirada”..
Donde te encuentres, ánimo, animal!.
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There are photographs that tell a story..
Hennu y Tazrurt (the beautiful). Bereber mother and daughter.
Merzouga desert, Morocco.
Hennu y Tazrurt (la bella). Madre e hija bereberes.
Desierto de Merzouga, Marruecos.
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My colleagues and I have just published a new paper in Molecular Neurobiology which contributes important insights into how vitamin D deficiency during embryonic development can alter the brain’s dopamine system.
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This research is just a part of the important work coming out of the Queensland Brain Institute linking vitamin D to autism traits and schizophrenia. Working with Dr. Leon Luan and Prof. Darryl Eyles was one of the highlights of my time @qldbraininstitute and I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of this work being published soon.
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This image is one of test images I captured when developing the new analysis methods for these studies. We combine advanced microscopy and analysis techniques to image large areas of the brain and characterise each individual brain cell
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#neuroscience #microscopy #microscopic #beautifulscience #imaging #microphotography #micrography #brain #scienceisart #sciart
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#mitochondria stained using #immunofluorescence for TOM20 (orange) and #nuclei using DAPI (green). To show the morphology of MEF cells, they used bright field #microscopy (detection with TPMT) . For confocal #imaging they utilized a @zeiss_micro LSM 710 at the LMF @DZNE_en.
Image courtesy of Christian Lamberg, PhD (@Christi23003438 on twitter) (see original post)
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Widefield fluorescence microscopy of Paramecium spec. before (left) and after (right) deconvolution.
Source : Leica Microsystems
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A Raspberry Slime Mold (Tubifera ferruginosa). I thought it looked like a cubist rendition of a foot.
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clavicle (collarbone) fracture +
U.S. Census Bureau employees, circa 1960s, with the Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computers (FOSDIC), a device used to transfer data from paper questionnaires to microfilm.
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From this direction my breath photographs as shock #hospitalglam
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[#imagedescription: timed photo of me, a #disabled white blonde woman, during a chest x-ray. I’m wearing a hospital gown over leggings, and the lens is tilted to stabilize the other photo, the X-ray, in the shot.]
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My text books came in! Getting ready to be the walking talking dictionary of EEG and NIRS imaging analysis.
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Diagnostic Imaging Rotation
I had been dreading this rotation all year and it was finally upon me. Countless stories of students crying and having breakdowns were circulating and didn’t inspire a great deal of enthusiasm. The first couple of days were really quite overwhelming. It seemed as though there was a new assessment every five minutes!
Each day generally began with an online quiz for which we frantically revised the night before. Once finished, we would convene in front of the light boxes for interpretation rounds. This involved five students being selected at random to look at a series of radiographs we’d never seen before, interpret them using a systematic approach, and arrive at a diagnosis. This was both timed and assessed. Each day would cover a different topic: musculoskeletal, thorax, abdomen, equine, and so on. In a desperate attempt to beat the tears, our group diffused the tension with humour. I don’t remember how it started, but we began referring to interpretation rounds as ‘the grilling’ or ‘the roasting’. The puns were endless. When asked if we were ready, the response was “I’ve been marinating all night!”. As the first person of the day stepped up to the hot seat, someone would mime lighting a grill. If the radiologist was being especially harsh, we’d say “the grill is hot today!”, and if they were giving someone a hard time, someone would make a sizzling noise in the background. Laughter was the only way to get through it.
On the first day, we had a short ultrasonography tutorial and a quick practice scanning a nurse’s dog. Each student was assigned a day of ultrasonography during which we observed the specialist performing scans and pretended to understand the grey shapes on the screen. Another day was spent on ‘interpretations’ where we interpreted all of the radiographs taken that day. The remaining students were assigned to radiography, which involved positioning real patients and taking the radiographs according to requests from clinicians. These were also timed and assessed, with many ways to instantly fail. If there weren’t any real patients, we were assessed on the dummy dog (named Emily) who was frustratingly inflexible. In the evenings, we would convene again for rounds and share any interesting cases with the group.
Towards the end of the second week, we had yet another timed exam where we had to take radiographs of a horse’s foot, fetlock or carpus. I forgot to check the exposure parameters on one of my shots, but it happened to be on the right setting by coincidence. On the final morning, we had an online theory exam.
As much as it pains me to admit it, I think I actually enjoyed diagnostic imaging! It was great to finally learn how to read radiographs and I improved considerably over the two weeks. Not a single tear was shed in our group, which was perhaps our greatest achievement.
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My crappy bike under splendid cherry blossoms along the Hangang River.
Apologies for belatedly posting spring photos now.
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