#germ cells

[bpod-bpod]

Germ to Sperm

A vital role for a molecule called SRFS1 in spermatogenesis [the development of sperm in the testes] – insight for potential male infertility treatments

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by Longjie Sun and colleagues

State Key Laboratory of Animal Biotech Breeding, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, January 2024

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#science #biomedicine #immunofluorescence #biology #germ cells #fertility #male fertility

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Spreading the love: At first, no one believed the researchers. How could marine animals pollinate plants under the surface, like bees do above? It happens—and it has likely been happening for tens of millions of years, biologist Zong-Xin Ren tells Nat Geo. “We know so little about our world,” Ren says. (Pictured above, an isopod covered in the germ cells of red algae.)

PHOTOGRAPH BY SEBASTIEN COLIN

#sebastien colin #photographer #marine animals #plant pollination #zong-xin ren #isopod #germ cells #red algae #nature #micro photography #national geographic

[microscopiaiwm]

MITOSIS- its Occurrence, Stages and Significance.

Unlocking knowledge one post at a time! Check out our latest notes on www.microscopiaiwm.com – a treasure trove of insights, ideas, and inspiration. Dive in, explore, and let the journey of discovery begin! 📚

                                        INTRODUCTION: Mitosis is a type of cell division that takes place in living organisms and it is commonly defined as the process of duplication of chromosomes in eukaryotic cells and distributed during cell division.  The process where a single cell divides resulting in two identical cells, each resulted cell contains the same number of chromosomes and…

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#anaphase #asexual reproduction #cell cycle #cell cycle stages #cell division #cell plate #chromosome #cleavage furrow #contractile ring #cytokinesis #daughter cell #daughter cells #division of cytoplasm #division of nucleus #dna #DNA double #duplication of chromosome #fragmoplast #genetics #germ cells #homologous chromosome #homologous recombination #homologous recombination repair #karyokinesis #kinetochore #kinetoplast #meiosis #metaphase #MicroScopia IWM #mitos

[cerealsnail]

my thesis film character, Joey! can't wait to show him in motion this year!!🐈‍⬛

#he's less of a cat and more of a single-celled organism at this point #debated changing his name to Germ because. well. germ #character design #cats #snart #thesis

[galaxygermdraws]

“So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being I mean, imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy Don't come at me I'm the main character and you have to like me”

-”Main Character”, Will Wood

So like. this may be the sassiest Wormman I have ever drawn. And i kind of love him. A lot. Also yes the comic book cover Is a direct recreation of the one by @/stormsketch aka Maxzilla. I felt it was fitting. But yea no this song is a bop and it fits Wormman a lot. 

(reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. Thankyu)

#hermitcraft #hermitblr #wormman #jukebox night #tw bright colors #ask to tag #this was rlly experimental #like i never really use screentones or black cell shading but like #i think it turned out good #for a first attempt. #also this was such a fun jukebox night to draw #i rlly like the colors only being shades of pink n yellow save for the bg also #germdraws #germ draws #ty ros for showin me this song #also yes ik the title is The Main Character but #it just worked better like this.

[lakemichigans]

i've been on the verge of getting sick for like a week now and i wish it would just happen already. my daily multivitamin is fighting for my life inside my body

#does anyone else have a very vivid visual of white blood cells in hand to hand combat with germs #every time i get sick i imagine a whole battle field

[rulesforthedance]

I've only been sick once since the start of the pandemic (a cold in 2021) (I <3 masks 4ever) but I've had several times when I've felt like I was starting to get sick and was like "oh shit covid has finally come for me" and each time it went away before it became more than a Hint of Something. But last night my left under-jaw lymph node got so swollen it hurt, which is historically a reliable precursor to me being sick, and I also felt generally Off, and I was like. This is it for real this time, here we go. But I got extra sleep last night and woke up this morning feeling fine and with the swelling almost gone. Something brought the fight to my door and I kicked its ass

#fuck off germs! #I'll kill you with my t cells! #my body is so cool tbh #'ohhhhhh but if you wear a mask all the time your immune system will atrophy!' [fart noises] #(you know what actually weakens your immune system? covid. covid does that)

[sweetheartmotives]

I could not BREATH when lying down earlier, my nose is filled with whatever icky yucky sickness is flowing through my body 😞

#sweetheart talks! #These are the germs inside my body fighting my cells 😕

[princessnijireiki]

anyway our CNS & brains are pretty complex, like we've barely figured out getting people with partial spinal cord damage back driving their own bodies + when we do it's still a roll of the dice & the processes are not all well understood... encephalitis can caused locked-in-ness like with sleeping sicknesses, akinetic mutism, etc where the body itself is not physically incapable of movement & action, but nothing is out there that jumps in and takes over from a driver who's paralyzed or asleep at the wheel... that's not actually a thing, it's fun speculative fiction but not representative of reality— so really, no worries lol

#the other thing is... we're megafauna? #like cordyceps hitches a ride on hymenoptera to get from point A to point B as part of their life cycle. no conscious goal #bc people often say ''oh a fungus/virus/microbe WANTS to spread & reproduce'' it doesn't WANT shit. #it is a single cell organism & s/t not even that— viruses are weird & not even always technically alive UNTIL a host or vector is infected #but my point being... we're like ''gone girl''... #amy dunne saying ''you think you'd be happy with piggybacking on my body on the way to something else? no way baby! I'm it.'' #microbes don't NEED to do all that highly specialized evolution to take over my legs like that & walk over to a tree. #cordyceps needs more than one ant. nothing needs more than a potential for human to human transmission x 8 billion. #and you don't need my brain or body control to do that when you have my blood my spit my lungs etc #path of least resistance + greatest effectiveness; a zombie virus doesn't need to evolve. we have aids we have rabies we have sars #give us scurvy and it's curtains lol... we don't need viral zombies if a new strain of polio makes a comeback. #we're the tripods in war of the worlds and it's our own planet that can kill us with a cold. #but it's more fun to catastrophize about a Big Scary Fantasy Germ than to be like ''get a DPT vaccine.'' #it won't be zombies; it will be infinitely more mundane; it will be infinitely worse.

[deep-spacediver577]

OJ turns another year older this week... Just a reminder!

#DSD577 #Osmosis Jones #Wake up ya cells and germs!

[bpod-bpod]

Hidden Eggs

People describe laptops as ‘black boxes’, with their concealed inner workings hard to understand and impossible to repair. The body is not much different. Our understanding of some essential parts and processes is limited by how hard they are to access and observe. To better understand ovaries, where eggs are formed, researchers have generated artificial replicas in the lab from mouse stem cells – starter cells that can develop into other types such as key ovary components germ cells, which go on to form eggs, and granulosa cells, which support those eggs. Generating granulosa cells from human material has proven harder, but this picture shows the results of a successful attempt (granulosa-like cells in green). With the generated germ and granulosa cells alongside each other, ovary structures began to form, which will provide an easily-accessed testing ground and give a glimpse inside the black box, revealing more secrets of fertility.

Written by Anthony Lewis

Image from work by Merrick D Pierson Smela and Christian C Kramme, and colleagues

Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, February 2023

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#science #biomedicine #ovulation #germ cells #ovaries #organoids #immunofluorescence

[khloemccain]

Been dying to draw my Osmosis Jones OCs recently so here's some cute chibi drawings I've made of my OC's Khloe and Suesie!

I'll be drawing Hanta next, so keep your eyes peeled!!!

(Credit to ChellyChu on here for the chibi bases btw!)

#osmosis jones #oc #osmosis jones oc #digital art #digital drawing #oc drawing #digital oc art #khloe mccain #suesie monas #Germ OC #Cell OC

[taxi-davis]

#stock photo #stockphoto #germs #microbes #bacteria #microscopic #single celled organisms #ameoba #greens #vegetables #food #vegetation #food poisoning #foodborne illness

[cantankerouscatfish]

planted 10,000 chives seeds today (like. legitimately a packet of 10,000, into flats) and if even like 50% germinate I will be SO happy.

#we (I) do not have a great track record with chives. idk why #we try smth new every year. this time we are trying the 65-70*F germ chamber! yeehaw #the one year we actually had decently full flats of the bastards but that was bc I'd found piles of old seeds in the cooler #and just. dumped them into flats. for funsies. like 80 seeds/cell instead of the usual 10. they did *hand waggle* okay.

[ispyspookymansion]

they hate me for my fearful and uncomfortable swag

#got banished from the dinner table for “sulking” #sorry for sulking i was fixating on the germs (covid?) and dust and skin cells that enter my lungs every time i breathe and also the sound #of you all crunching while you eat. as if its my fault #kora.txt #its fine i wasnt hungry anyways but ive ruined the vibes for the night im afraid.

[tenth-sentence]

Examples of those genetic defenses include the protections (at a price) that the sickle-cell gene, Tay-Sachs gene, and cystic fibrosis gene may confer on African blacks, Ashkenazi Jews, and northern Europeans against malaria, tuberculosis, and bacterial diarrheas, respectively.

"Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years" - Jared Diamond

#book quote #guns germs and steel #jared diamond #nonfiction #genes #genetics #sickle cell disease #tay sachs #cystic fibrosis #african #ashkenazi jewish #european #malaria #tuberculosis #bacterial diseases