Happy New Year Laboratorians

Thank you for your likes and support during the year 2013. Lets keep this community and page rolling in the spirit of "Art and Science" also in 2014.

Juha Wahlstedt

Origina image:
Suny Collado - Timeline images

Source: Facebook
Image credits: Suny Collado



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The Wonder of Life

Baby Inside the Stone
Amazing sculpture of Monsalve Dubian Fernanda Torres 
in the middle of a road in Colombia.

Source: Facebook
Image credits: Enrique Santos

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Keep Calm and Love Biomedicina

Amazing notebook via  Biomedicina Padrão

Source:  Biomedicina Padrão
Image credits: Fernando Jimenez

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On the Curious Motions of Syphilis and Lyme Disease Bacteria

The bacteria that cause syphilis and Lyme Disease have something extraordinary in common: they manage to propel themselves through their environment in spite of the fact their tails are located inside their bodies.
For bacteria, they’re also unusually shaped and active. In this movie, you can see the bacteria that cause Lyme Disease moving like living, squirming cavatappi.


Read more and view videos:
On the Curious Motions of Syphilis and Lyme Disease Bacteria

Source: Scientific American


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CSF Gram Stain Case

Case: 35 years old man from Brazil. He has been detected as HIV positive two yars ago. No he is having high fewer and headace. Lumbal pucture was taken and gram stain made. The findings are on the image.

What are the findings?

CORRECT ANSWER: Mononuclear cells 3+. yeast elements 2+.
This HIV positive patient is getting immunosupressive medication and infected by yeast (Cryptococcus neoformans).

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Love in Microbiology Lab

Serratia marcescens is a rod-shaped, gram negative, meaning it has a smaller peptidoglycan cell wall and a lipopolysaccharide layer on top of that. The red pigment is naturally occurring! It is found a variety of places, many that you may not expect! You can find it in soils, in your bathroom (it will live off of soap and shampoo residue!), and even your teeth!! I hope that you don't have it in your teeth... Wikipedia says it will stain your teeth reddish.

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Life starts now.: Pink, purple, and... bacteria?

Source: Life starts now
Image credits: Tasha P

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Macroscopic Hematology

Visual appearance of peripheral blood smear.

• Polycytemia
• Normal
• Anemia
• Gammopathy

Source: Facebook
Image credits: Wintrobe's Atlas of Clinical Hematology

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Hakuna Matata Laboratorians

The chemistry way to say it

Source: Distractify
Image credits: Jake Heppner


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