We love the change in perception that happens when ordinary objects are stared at under an electron microscope. Our gaze then turned inwards towards the human body, where we found images that were both fascinating and frightening. We took the best 25 pictures of the human body under an electron microscope to show that the one quality that unites everyone on this planet is that we all look really freaky under an electron microscope. [Learn more about the electron microscope]
Eyelashes
Bacteria on a Human Tongue
Hair
Artery
Brain Cells
Nerve Ending
Sperm
Small Intestine
Lung
Tooth Plaque
Taste Bud
Optic Disk from Eye (the Blind Spot)
Ear Stereocilia
Brain Neurons
Red Blood Cells
Blood Clotting over Wound
Breast Cancer Cell
DNA
Blood Cells
Iris
Sweat on an Index Finger
Human Bone Marrow Stem Cells
Blood Platelet
Fingerprint Ridge
Heart Ventricle
Top image: Additional images of human body under electron microscope. Left: Red blood cells get caught up in the sticky web of a blood clot (Photo: David Gregory & Debbie Marshall, Wellcome Images). Right: Warped lung cancer cells (Photo: Anne Weston, Wellcome Images).
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