Like distant exoplanet of an unknown world, this image unveils the incredible regenerative potential of dental pulp stem cells. The vibrant blue sphere specifically illuminates the cartilage-like matrix these cells have formed, confirming successful #chondrogenesis.
Photograph: Desi Veleva/AIBN
Pictured here is myotube grown in a dish using muscle stem cells.
Photograph: Melinder Gill/AIBN
A showcase of digital PolyNIPAM and polyethyleneimine models, created from real polymer simulations via the PolyConstruct platform.
Illustration: Ada Quinn/AIBN
An osteocyte is the most abundant cell in mature bone. Here’s one in a 3D biomimetic hydrogel system.
Photograph: Shiva Muthuswamy/AIBN
A diffusion MRI tractography was used to map a developing Burderkin plum – specifically the fibrous structures that supply various nutrients.
Photograph: Nyoman Kurniawan/AIBN
Here, a molecular dynamics simulator has been used to represent a QacA multidrug efflux pump transporting ethidium bromide across the cell membrane in methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus.
Illustration: Patrick Sutton/AIBN
Brain organoids are tiny, synthetic representations of real human brains. This section of a human brain organoid shows the star-shaped glial cells known as astrocytes, aged 140 days.
Photograph: Bahaa Al-mhanawi/AIBN
What looks like an enchanted forest is in fact a zinc electrode after cycling in an aqueous battery.
Photograph: Yiqing Wang/AIBN
Induced pluripotent stem cells undergoing directed differentiation into early ectoderm. The blue nuclei signify the presence of the Pax6 gene, while the intricate white filaments outline Nestin.
Photograph: Desi Veleva/AIBN
A render of data from real molecular dynamics simulations. You’ve got a cholesterol molecule (light blue, centre) binding to the human glycine transporter 2 (grey) inside a messy mixture of flexible phospholipids (bright colours), and more rigid sterols (blue).
Photograph: Ada Quinn
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