Tag: microscope

Label Neuronal activation of GLP-1 receptor agonist Artist Inge Guerrero Description This piece presents a coronal section of the rat brain overlaid with patterns of neuronal activation. The dark punctate signals represent c-Fos immunoreactivity, a well-established marker of recent neuronal activity, capturing a snapshot of functional engagement across distributed brain regions. Prominent c-Fos expression is…

Label Color Swirls of PX458 Transfection Artist Alyssa Giaccone Description CRISPR is a powerful genomic tool allowing scientists to knock out or add sequences to DNA by use of guide RNAs and Cas nucleases. Guide RNAs target specific sequences ensuring a precise location is affected in the “change” made by CRISPR editing. A Cas nuclease…

Label Butterfly Proboscis Artist Catherine Fidd Description This is a scanning electron microscope image of a butterfly’s proboscis, the feeding tube used to ingest liquids. The flexible tube has a complex topography, imperceptible to the naked human eye. Humans’ current manufacturing abilities are still inferior to animal microstructures designed over millions of years of evolution.…

Label Sodalite Crystal Artist Jennifer Scheckowitz Description A sodalite crystal under a Keyence VHX-7000 microscope at 500x magnification. Type Keyence VHX-7000 microscope Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Physics Area of Research Chemical engineering Date 2026

Label Biotite Schist under UV Light Artist Jennifer Scheckowitz Description Biotite schist under a Keyence VHX-7000 microscope at 80x magnification under a UV light source. Type Keyence VHX-7000 microscope Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Physics Area of Research Chemical engineering Date 2026

Label The Stillness of Motion Artist Lara Haroun Description Nanopipettes, quartz capillaries laser-pulled into conical-shaped geometries, taper into a nanometer-sized pore where the smallest disturbance can halt the world within. Gold nanoparticles drift like silent constellations, filament ghosts cling to the glass, and stray debris gathers at the threshold, conspiring toward stillness. Here, at the…

Label Two Aeolosoma in Motion Artist Elle Plasencia Description Two aeolosoma moving against one another, wet sample viewed under differential interference contrast with a 20x objective. A wet sample of aeolosoma was prepared on a glass slide and placed under the microscope set in differential interference contrast with a 20x objective. This image was created…

Label Mammal Eye Artist Lauren Vann Description A mammal eye slide taken under phase contrast 3 with a 30 millisecond exposure. The image was captured with a Nikon camera attached to a microscope. Type Microscope Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Biological Science Area of Research Microscopic biology art Research Group National High Magnetic…

Label Fish Scale Artist Lauren Vann Description A microscopic fish scale taken on 40x with half phase contrast on and half off. The image was captured with a Nikon camera attached to a microscope. Type Microscope Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Biological Science Area of Research Microscopic biology art Research Group National High…

Label Heart in Malachite Artist Jennifer Scheckowitz Description A malachite crystal under a Keyence VHX-7000 microscope at 100x magnification. Type Keyence VHX-7000 microscope Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Physics Area of Research Chemical engineering Date 2026