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35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photography

Original publication date
18 November 2010
Original section
Site history and miscellany
Original slug / legacy ID
35-years-of-the-worlds-best-microscope-photography / 191
Restored on current site
martinpeniak.com/archive/writing/35-years-of-the-worlds-best-microscope-photography/
Editing scope
Period voice retained; spelling and formatting lightly cleaned.

Originally published 18 November 2010 on the earlier martinpeniak.com site.

Preserved as site-history context from the earlier public site. The article keeps its period voice, with light formatting cleanup.

Click here to see the whole gallery of many more beautiful images. The one below shows filamentous actin and microtubules (structural proteins) in mouse fibroblasts (cells) under 1000x magnification. (The Scripps Research Institute. Courtesy of Nikon Small World).

Since I have chosen to put a picture of microtubules as one example I should also mention the Roger Penrose and Staurt Hameroff have speculated that consciousness is the result of quantum gravity effects in these microtubules. Click here to go to their website.