Starry night?
| 22 June, 2010 | Richard P. Grant |
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It’s been a while, I realize, since I last gave you a chance to win anything. So, here we go. For a chance of a Naturally Selected sweatshirt (here modelled by Neuroscience Section Head Andrew Lumsden),
simply tell me what’s going on in this figure from a recent paper (click through for large version):
DOI please, and a non-specialist description as a tie-breaker. Usual terms apply, and as ever, my decision is final.
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Clearly, a christmas tree has exploded 🙂
It’s a visualization of Domenech’s tactics. That’s reality in the top right hand corner.
Please replace Domenech with Capello this evening, if appropriate.
Obviously, one of their charges escaped from Ghost Buster’s vacuum jar!
Results of disintegrator experimentation by Kermit and Cookie Monster. Simultaneous self experimentation show heterogeneity of response between Muppet types (note Kermit’s intact eye in upper right corner)
Until Death Do Us Part!!
A clear cut case of cell in different stages of apoptosis from chromatin condensation to TUNEL labeling of DNA’s sticky ends.
I have not seen the paper but imo it is beautiful imagery of cells communicating. The Green is a protein tagged with GFP protein, the Red is another protein tagged with RFP. The blue could be DAPI staining.
It’s cells secreting a toxin that an antibody has bound to and neutralized.
Real Life – On the Town.
A moon-yit couple arrive together at a party one evening. While walking through the crowd together, the male moon-yit (magenta) suddenly became distracted by an exceedingly attractive moon-yit on the other side of the room (not seen), and headed off in that direction (right arrow). Noting this, the female moon-yit (red, left arrow) who came to the party with the male, became enraged and flew off in the opposite direction (middle arrow) spewing semi-inappropriate comments (asterisks) and a cloud of expletive deleteds (green).
Looks like a Drosophila eye disc. the blue may be photoreceptor nuclei. its probably cell division with the red labeling being BrDU or phospho histone. the green probably marks cytoskeleon. Wild guess!
Seeing all of this, the female moon-yit’s best friend (upper right [only seen upon clicking the large version]) adds her own two cents’ worth as the male moon-yit zooms by.
Clearly depicts the Gulf oil spill, with the epicenter at lower left and waves of green sludge wafting towards the Louisiana coast upper right. I think the pink at upper right may be the lone Union worker-manned siphon rig that the Administration will allow to work on cleaning it up.
Obviously, the frogs have gotten a hold of our paint ball guns again. Top right is a good shot. Bottom left needs to aim a little more to the right. Must have been the glowing grass swaying in the breeze that threw him off.
It’s a figure from a study on cell politics. The vast majority are blue but on the far right (arrowed) is a cell undergoing political suicide (as shown the red stain). On the left, green cells (starred) are invading and are also causing some cells to die (arrow). The networking being used by the green cells is visible by the filaments between them (filled arrow). Note also the diffuse spread of green throughout the population.
Obviously, it is a party… there is a cheerfull group talking about south-africa world cup. The little red one on the corner, is just so tired of listenig to them, so, he’s leaving.
Obviously, it is a party… there is a cheerfull group talking about south-africa world cup. The little red one on the corner, is just so tired of listenig to them, so, he’s leaving.
Clearly a Rorschach test for biologists.
All of the prior respondants are delusional. I see a primary cilium (big magenta blob) in a definitely mouse cell line, most likely an ES cell line. The primary cilium is reduced in cells infected with a lentivirus co-expressing GFP with an shRNA preventing the outgrowth of the cilium from the basal body. I’ll even go with some unexpected effects in which the shRNA disrupted cytokinesis which is why the two GFP cells seem linked.
Continuing Paul Stein’s moon-yit story (Stein 2010, unpublished data, see above), that linkage shows that, despite the wandering eye of the male moon-yit, he remains forever tethered at the hip to the female moon-yit. So Paul was wrong on this being a moon-yit spat. It rather is a touching tale of eternal moon-yit love. Didn’t the Captain and Tenille sing about that in the 70’s?
Obviously the respondents to this do not read the cellular times.
If you did you would know that this is clearly a micro-weather report from last March. You can see in the cold weather hitting the southwest city of Cell York whilst another cold weather front drifts North of Filamenston.
Lets hope things clear up and we all have a nice summer 🙂
TRAFFIC REPORT, every 10 minutes — Avoid the downtown bridge, a 2 car pile up and a stalled car (magenta blob). Plan extra time time and do not stop for coffee on your way to work.
I don’t know what the hell it is, but if you go with funniest response, give it to Fred Schaufele.
Great idea: why don’t all y’all vote for the funniest?
Obviously the authors submitted the image upside down. It is quite clear if you rotate it 180 degrees.
OMG. I’ve never won anything before. I thank Mom, Dad and all my relatives going back 2,000 generations.
All the animals too.
And plants–does anybody ever ‘catch’ anything from plants? Nope. Now all those small microbe critters, fungi and bacteria, that’s another story. Not with plants. Everybody takes plants for granted. I thank the plants. I am just sad that Pluto is no longer a plant.
Kudos also to my prior science teachers who provided me with the education needed to read into that picture what others simply could not see. I also thank J Cell Sci for setting me up by publishing an incorrect legend to the figure (they honestly think the study has something to do with FAK?? Puhleeeze). And finally, but not the least, to the Captain and Tenille, whom I haven’t thought about for at least 30 years. On second thought, I was happier when I wasn’t remembering them or their songs.