18 October 2024

Intestinal villi and beach grass


A beautiful illustration of how our gut is able to absorb nutrients so efficiently.

Credit Dr Amy Engevik/Nikon Small World, from a collection of images from the Nikon Small World microphotography competition, posted in The Guardian.  Here's a cross-section of beach grass (credit Gerhard Vlcek):


Posted for all those readers who took science courses (or pursued science careers) and spent uncountable hours just exploring the world as seen by a microscope.

3 comments:

  1. Halloween faces in the bunch grass, at least four different ones. I wonder how many in other views.

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    1. I see 6 whole faces and a couple partials at the edge of the picture.
      xoxoxoBruce

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