Micro Images

Amazing

Micro Images

of Body Parts



Get up close and personal with your innards with these 15 amazing 3D-body shots.
Almost all of the following images were captured using a scanning electron microscope (SEM), a type of electron microscope that uses a beam of high-energy electrons to scan surfaces of images.

The electron beam of the SEM interacts with atoms near or at the surface of the sample
to be viewed, resulting in a very high-resolution, 3D-image.

Magnification levels range from x 25 (about the same as a hand lens) to about x 250,000.
Incredible details of 1 to 5 nm in size can be detected.





1. Red Blood Cells

They look like little cinnamon candies here, but they're actually the most common type of blood cell in the human body - red blood cells (RBCs). These biconcave-shaped cells have the tall task of carrying oxygen to our entire body; in women there are about 4 to 5 million RBCs per micro liter (cubic millimeter) of blood and about 5 to 6 million in men. People who live at higher altitudes have even more RBCs because of the low oxygen levels in their environment.




2. Split End of Human Hair

Regular trimmings to your hair and good conditioner should help to prevent this unsightly picture of a split end of a human hair.




3. Purkinje Neurons

Of the 100 billion neurons in your brain. Purkinje neurons are some of the largest. Among other things, these cells are the masters of motor coordination in the cerebellar cortex. Toxic exposure such as alcohol and lithium, autoimmune diseases, genetic mutations including autism and neurodegenerative diseases can negatively affect human Purkinje cells.




4. Hair Cell in the Ear

Here's what it looks like to see a close-up of human hair cell stereo cilia inside the ear. These detect mechanical movement in response to sound vibrations.




5. Blood Vessels Emerging from the Optic Nerve

In this image, stained retinal blood vessels are shown to emerge from the black-colored optic disc. The optic disc is a blind spot because no light receptor cells are present in this area of the retina where the optic nerve and retinal blood vessels leave the back of the eye.




6. Tongue with Taste Bud

This colour-enhanced image depicts a taste bud on the tongue. The human tongue has about 10,000 taste buds that are involved with detecting salty, sour, bitter, sweet and savoury taste perceptions.





7. Tooth Plaque

Brush your teeth often because this is what the surface of a tooth with a form of “corn-on-the-cob” plaque looks like.




8. Blood Clot

Remember that picture of the nice, uniform shapes of red blood cells you just looked at? Well, here's what it looks like when those same cells get caught up in the sticky web of a blood clot. The cell in the middle is a white blood cell.




9. Alveoli in the Lung

This is what a colour-enhanced image of the inner surface of your lung looks like. The hollow cavities are alveoli; this is where gas exchange occurs with the blood.




10. Lung Cancer Cells

This image of warped lung cancer cells is in stark contrast to the healthy lung in the previous picture.




11. Villi of Small Intestine

Villi in the small intestine increase the surface area of the gut, which helps in the absorption of food. Look closely and you’ll see some food stuck in one of the crevices.




12. Human Egg with Coronal Cells

This image is of a purple, colour-enhanced human egg sitting on a pin. The egg is coated with the zona pellicuda, a glycoprotein that protects the egg but also helps to trap and bind sperm. Two coronal cells are attached to the zona pellicuda.




13. Sperm on the Surface of a Human Egg

Here's a close-up of a number of sperm trying to fertilize an egg.




14. Human Embryo and Sperm

It looks like the world at war, but it’s actually five days after the fertilisation of an egg, with some remaining sperm cells still sticking around. This fluorescent image was captured using a confocal microscope. The embryo and sperm cell nuclei are stained purple while sperm tails are green. The blue areas are gap junctions, which form connections between the cells.





15. Colored Image of a 6 day old Human Embryo Implanting

Rare one... Before and after collision of A330 Air france flight

Feel so sad for all the passengers including the extraordinary photographer, who kept his cool even in his last moments of life and took this photo. Hats off to him!!! The world saw the disappearance of an A330 Air Frane during a trans Atlantic flight between Rio to Paris. Very ironic that a day before I got a mail of the photos taken a a passenger on a flight mins after a mid air collision, and mins before the crash of the said aircraft Two shots taken inside the plane before it crashed. Unbelievable! Photos taken inside the GOL B 737 aircraft that was involved in a mid air collision and crashed..... A B737 had a mid air collision with the Embraer Legacy while cruising at 35,000 feet over South America. The Embraer Legacy, though seriously damaged with the winglet ripped off, managed to make a landing at a nearby airstrip in the midst of the Amazon jungle. The crew and passengers of the Embraer Legacy had no idea what they had hit. The B737however crashed, killing all crew and passengers on board. The two photos attached were apparently taken by one of the passengers in the B737, just after the collision and before the aircraft crashed. The photos were retrieved from the camera's memory stick. You will never get to see photos like this. In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo, one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole.

These photos were found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the remains in Serra do Cachimbo. Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory Stick was recovered. Investigating the serial number of the camera, the owner was identified as Paulo G. Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in the outskirts of Porto Alegre. It can be imagined that he was standing during the impact with the Embraer Legacy and during the turbulence, he managed to take these photos, just seconds after the tail loss the aircraft plunged. So the camera was found near the cockpit. The structural stress probably ripped the engines away, diminishing the falling speed, protecting the electronic equipment but not unfortunately the victims. Paulo Muller leaves behind two daughters, Bruna and Beatriz.

MEN ARE THE WEAKER SEX

NOW it’s official. Men, not women are the weaker sex.
Experts have found that baby boys are more at risk of complications in the womb and more likely to have difficult deliveries.
And the gender gap remains when they grow up, as men are more vulnerable to infections and less able to withstand disease than women, research suggests.
Professor Marek Glezerman, an expert in gender-based medicine, studied 66,000 births at Israel’s Rabin Medical Centre between 1995 and 2006.
He found that pregnancies with a male foetus were more often complicated and carried greater risk of difficult or premature delivery. And in a study presented to the Israel Society for Gender Based Medicine, Professor Glezerman said this ­vulnerability continued throughout boys’ lives.
He said: “Men are known to have a shorter life span, are more susceptible to infections and have less chance of withstanding disease than women.
“In short, men are the weaker sex.”
Professor Glezerman said: “Males are also associated with higher risk in the neonatal period after birth and are more likely to expose themselves to risky behaviour later in life.”
Boys may take more chances as the result of peer pressure, and testosterone in their bloodstream could also lead to more dangerous behaviour, he said. But this was not without its benefits for society, because men were more likely to risk danger.
“Men become soldiers, construction workers, and work as firefighters,” he said. “They take on these risks quite naturally to protect their society, and they’re trained to do this without question.”
Professor Glezerman said the findings supported the idea that medicine should be tailored to the individual needs of men and women.
“It’s almost like males and females are a different species,” he said.
“A one-size-fits-all medical approach does an injustice to males and females.”

Are all literates educated?

Most people are of the opinion that all literate are educated and illiterates are uneducated. But what defines a human to be a literate or educated.

Literacy is defined as the ability to read and write, either in the mother tounge or some other language, while a educated person is the one who has the knowledge and means what he does .
Being educated and being literate are two distinct things. Possesing degree certificates and embossing behind actually entails that these people are literate and not educated. But being educated depends on how one conducts himself in different situations, adherence to norms, maintaing ethics and how one behaves in public places.

India has a great shortage of educated men (don’t read it as literate men). We evidence them in our day to day lives. Regrettably, we see large proportion of uneducated literates than educated illterates. We more often find the literate overruling norms everywhere, like traffic norms, parking regualtions etc.. I just gives a feeling that our system of teaching drives a thought process that by becoming literates, they own the authority to be slothful and override.
Corruption is India, in my opinion is highly employed by the literates, in all end of the system owing to their laziness.

Till date, not even 50% of literates vote in the public election. Yet we still have more than 60% of the illterates voting in every election.

Literate mass who don’t vote, yet they are ready to come up with reasons for not voting and lecturing on the govt. system till the next election.

They are literate. But they are far from being educated. Wish the literates educate themselves before they even think of teaching others.