23 February 2011

You'd never guess what this is

"Sperm tails tangled up in a seminiferous tubule"

Credit Clifford Barnes, posted in the Flickr photostream of the FEI Company (which, BTW, has lots of neat SEM images), via Dr. Sci-Phy.

2 comments:

  1. Ray BeezeFebruary 24, 2011 at 1:31 AM

    it's a piece of rat testes tissue which had been fixed in formalin before post fixation in osmium tetroxide.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2011 at 9:17 AM

    "...tails tangled up" got me thinking of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king_%28folklore%29

    And from there the mental picture just descended further and further down the hole of bizarre sexual imagery

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