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How Do Flies Attach to Objects?
This is an electron micrograph of the fly foot. The adhesive spatula-shaped setae (light-blue structures) allow the fly to attach itself to objects.

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Sweet-Toothed Cells
Inside the ovary of the fruit fly, sex cells divide, multiply and grow to become mature eggs. A new study shows that this normal physiological process causes female fruit flies to develop a preference for sugar.

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Lung Cancer on a Chip
Lung cancer cells (green) grow within healthy lung tissue (red) in the lung cancer chip, used to model and study how tumors grow.

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Rainbow Brain
A computer-generated multi-color image of a brain based on data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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Fly Glial Cells With Extra Genome Copies
These images show glial cells of the optic chiasm in the adult fly brain that have accumulated extra genome copies.

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Nematode Worm Nerve Cells Fusing Together
In the study during which this image was taken, nematode worms were engineered to express fusogens in their neurons. These nerve cells fused together, causing behavioral impairments.

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Peripheral Sensory Neuron
Confocal micrograph of a peripheral sensory neuron in culture. Marker stains and antibodies are used to identify neurons (red), c-Fos protein (green) and nuclei (blue).

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Mitochondria and Cell Fate
In these images, we can see human progenitor cells with their DNA-containing nucleus colored red after division and their mitochondria labeled in green.

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Taste Buds
This image shows fungiform taste papillae or “taste buds”, small structures or "bumps" found on the upper surface of the front two thirds of the tongue.

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tdTomato Expression in Nodose Neurons
This image shows tdTomato (red) expression in nodose sensory nerve cells expressing P2X2.
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