Biochemical Soul » embryonic stem cell http://biochemicalsoul.com Musings on Nature, Science, Evolution, Biology, and Education Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:54:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Amazing Neurons from Embryonic Stem Cells in a Dish http://biochemicalsoul.com/2008/08/amazing-cells-in-a-dish/ http://biochemicalsoul.com/2008/08/amazing-cells-in-a-dish/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:28:00 +0000 Irradiatus http://biochemicalsoul2.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/amazing-cells-in-a-dish/ I grew these mouse embryonic stem cells on a plate, and through various molecular trickery, I made them turn in to the crazy cell types you see here. (Click for larger images)

Check out the next two images. They are the same cells viewed in two different ways (normal light, and epifluorescence).

Long neuronal axons stretch across the dish below.


Two beautiful connected cells.

]]> http://biochemicalsoul.com/2008/08/amazing-cells-in-a-dish/feed/ 1 Embryonic Stem Cells Turning Into Brain Cells http://biochemicalsoul.com/2008/08/embryonic-stem-cells-turning-into-brain-cells/ http://biochemicalsoul.com/2008/08/embryonic-stem-cells-turning-into-brain-cells/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:13:00 +0000 Irradiatus http://biochemicalsoul2.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/embryonic-stem-cells-turning-into-brain-cells/ These are mouse embryonic stem cells that I coerced to differentiate into brain cells. The neurons are green, red represents the radial glia (they proved a scaffold for the neurons), and the blue are the nuclei of the cells (that houses the DNA).

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