heythereuniverse: Scanning electron micrograph of Apple iPod earbud filter. Skin is in green. Charming!

heythereuniverse:

Scanning electron micrograph of Apple iPod earbud filter. Skin is in green.

Charming!

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1 week ago

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2 weeks ago
When Ed Yong publishes his I’ve got your missing links right here

When Ed Yong publishes his I’ve got your missing links right here


2 weeks ago
(via Everything You Didn’t Want to Know About Cockroaches « BODY HORRORS)

(via Everything You Didn’t Want to Know About Cockroaches « BODY HORRORS)

3 weeks ago
A colored scanning electron micrograph of the American cockroach Click for source

A colored scanning electron micrograph of the American cockroach

Click for source

3 weeks ago
Scanning Electron Micrograph of the cercus of Periplaneta americana, the American cockroach The cerci are a pair of sensory organs located at the tail end of the cockroach and assist in escape behavior Click for source

Scanning Electron Micrograph of the cercus of Periplaneta americana, the American cockroach

The cerci are a pair of sensory organs located at the tail end of the cockroach and assist in escape behavior

Click for source

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3 weeks ago

hornorivory:

Organs of Pills by Sara Asnaghi.

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3 weeks ago

Two Hundred Years of Surgery — NEJM

“Surgery is a profession defined by its authority to cure by means of bodily invasion. The brutality and risks of opening a living person’s body have long been apparent, the benefits only slowly and haltingly worked out.”

Gawande is a master science writer

4 weeks ago
Human blood cells seen through an electronic microscope, found on sharp 2000 year old obsidian knives discovered in Cantona, in the central Mexico state of Puebla The discovery indicates that human sacrifices were alive and well long before the Aztecs instituted the ignominious custom Via the equally ignominious Daily Mail

Human blood cells seen through an electronic microscope, found on sharp 2000 year old obsidian knives discovered in Cantona, in the central Mexico state of Puebla

The discovery indicates that human sacrifices were alive and well long before the Aztecs instituted the ignominious custom

Via the equally ignominious Daily Mail

(Source: Daily Mail)

4 weeks ago
dead-men-talking: fuckyeahcross-sections: (via Science Photo Library) Cross section of a human fingertip (distal phalanx). A thick pad of subcutaneous fat (yellow) protects the bone, vessels, and nerves. The root of the finger nail is tucked into the nail groove, a folded pocket of skin which makes up the cuticle.

dead-men-talking:

fuckyeahcross-sections:

(via Science Photo Library)

Cross section of a human fingertip (distal phalanx). A thick pad of subcutaneous fat (yellow) protects the bone, vessels, and nerves. The root of the finger nail is tucked into the nail groove, a folded pocket of skin which makes up the cuticle.
4 weeks ago
(via The Story of Gardens - but does it float)

(via The Story of Gardens - but does it float)

1 month ago
medicalschool: Plaster casting of the respiratory tree

medicalschool:

Plaster casting of the respiratory tree

1 month ago

Hello and thank you to my new followers! How exciting!

Just an FYI: my Tumblr is more of an accessory organ to my blog Body Horrors, where I write about the intersection of anthropology, sociology and geography of infectious diseases and parasites. That’s really where I hang out and think about stuff like,

- how fish parasites are spread by Thai food,

- the transmission of a certain type of wart in butchers and fishmongers,

- blood-borne disease transmission among Muslims at the Hajj,

- and how mites in your skin might contribute to acne and rosacea.

I understand it’s not for everyone, particularly the squeamish, but why don’t you go visit? It’s much weirder than my Tumblr, I promise!

Thanks - RK

1 month ago
Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the measles virus (known as rubeola) Its envelope is broken and it is a full-on nucleocapsid filament jail-break Click for source

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the measles virus (known as rubeola)

Its envelope is broken and it is a full-on nucleocapsid filament jail-break

Click for source

1 month ago
germgirl: Great patient advocacy against HAIs! A patient reads a paper about hospital privacy curtains being contaminated with bacteria and pins a note — and the paper — to his/her blankets, reminding hospital staff to wash their hands. (Image courtesy PurThread, a company working on antibacterial textiles) (via Ow.ly - image uploaded by @PurThread) Note: HH means “hand hygiene”

germgirl:

Great patient advocacy against HAIs! A patient reads a paper about hospital privacy curtains being contaminated with bacteria and pins a note — and the paper — to his/her blankets, reminding hospital staff to wash their hands.

(Image courtesy PurThread, a company working on antibacterial textiles)

(via Ow.ly - image uploaded by @PurThread)

Note: HH means “hand hygiene”

1 month ago