May 15, 2009
Weird Science
So, this week's big question from the world of pharmacological neuroscience: what the bloody buggering fuck is this?
Obviously, at one level I know what it is -- it's a composite image of fluorescence artefacts in a cerebellar neuronal culture. I've overlaid two images taken with different absorption/emission spectra, shown here as red and green, which is pretty much what the emissions are. The question is, what are the artefacts? What's causing them to mysteriously appear out of nowhere, overnight? Why do they have this peculiar "wormy" appearance? And why are they so much brighter than the tags we put in deliberately?
If you have any ideas I'd be delighted to hear from you...
Posted by matt at May 15, 2009 9:11 PM
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