biology

At an open field day at Stanford in 1971, a group of people enacted protein synthesis. The fun part starts at about three and a hlaf minutes into the video. …

At Artem Medicalis, Belgian artist Pascale Pollier makes very detailed medical illustrations, of anatomical concepts, or of microscopic images. Most of her work is related to skin pigmentation, and my …

Folding@Home is a project of Stanford University, studying protein folding. The way in which proteins are folded three-dimensionally is crucial to their function. Many mutations that lead to disease are …

My parents went to Barcelona a few weeks ago and saw this Dali painting of a DNA structure in a museum. Naturally, they sent me a postcard of it. This …

Pruned, a blog about landscape architecture, has some pictures of landscapes in petri dishes: (Thanks to Paul for the link)

MicroAngela’s Electron Microscope Image Gallery has some pretty pictures of insects, cells, and parasites. Red blood cells Cigar beetle Save Save