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Here at the Ó³»­´«Ã½Minded Blog, we polled the Ó³»­´«Ã½ community for their best holiday-themed scientific imagery — and we got some wonderful responses. We posted a few at the end of 2010, and here's one more!

This stunning picture is a false-colored microscopic image of human liver cells grown with mouse fibroblasts in vitro. The cellular model is useful for identifying changes in liver cells when treated with drugs. In this image, a blue stain marks the liver cell DNA, and green stains the cells' endoplasmic reticulum.

This past Sunday, January 2, 2011 The Boston Globe ran a on the Ó³»­´«Ã½ written by Carolyn Johnson. For those unfamiliar with our organization, this is a good primer on what Carolyn describes as “a major research hub…with the goal of leveraging mind-boggling amounts of information to understand and abolish some of humanity’s most complicated and seemingly intractable diseases: diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia."

Here at the Ó³»­´«Ã½Minded Blog, we polled the Ó³»­´«Ã½ community for their best holiday-themed scientific imagery — and we got some wonderful responses. We'll be taking a break until the new year, but in the meantime, enjoy these gorgeous biological images sure to keep you in the holiday spirit. Check back each day for a new entry. See you in 2011!

Here at the Ó³»­´«Ã½Minded Blog, we polled the Ó³»­´«Ã½ community for their best holiday-themed scientific imagery — and we got some wonderful responses. We'll be taking a break until the new year, but in the meantime, enjoy these gorgeous biological images sure to keep you in the holiday spirit. Check back each day for a new entry. See you in 2011!