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A macrophage (pale brown) interacts with Borrelia cells (blue), the spirochete bacteria that cause Lyme disease.
Via afracturedreality. Image: eye of science/Nicole Ottawa and Oliver Meckes.
(Source: cell.com)
(Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every mixed emotion needs to find voice.)
Since his arresting the early morning of January 11, 2011 — two years to the day before Aaron Swartz ended his life — I have known more about the events that began this…
An early developing embryo, known as a blastula, of Dendraster excentricus, the sand dollar. Apparatuses aiding in cell division, such as mitotic spindles and asters, can be seen.
Image by by George von Dassow, University of Oregon.
A human dendritic cell (blue) interacting with and activating a lymphocyte (pink).
Image by Olivier Schwartz and the Electron Microscopy Core Facility, Institut Pasteur.
Actin filaments constructed into circular shapes using micropatterened glass coverslips etched with deep UV lithography.
Image by Anne-Cécile Reymann and Manuel Théry, iRTSV.