Tag: astronomy

A prostate the size of Jupiter

A close up of Jupiter’s red spot was seen in an enlarged prostate biopsy!

In commemoration of the NASA spacecraft, Juno, who entered the orbit of Jupiter this week and is now poised to transmit some eagerly anticipated close up views of the planet.

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The red spot is a prostatic concretion (corpora amylacea). A substance found in the lumen of the prostate gland of unknown significance. They increase in number with age and are thought to be composed of thickened prostatic secretions and shed cells. They are a useful identifying feature of prostate in both normal and pathological prostate specimens.

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iPhone + Histo = iPhisto (?!?)

Magnifi is the world’s first iPhone photoadapter case. Magnifi connects the camera on your iPhone 4 / 4S / 5 to your favorite optical instrument, allowing you to take pictures and video through the eyepiece. This includes, binoculars, microscopes, telescopes and almost anything else with an eyepiece.

Seriously. There is no way I am not going to be getting one of these. Perfect for anyone who spends any time at all getting pink-eye from a shared microscope.

Thanks arcturuslabs.com you are awesome! (*cough* send me free stuff *cough*)

REBLOG to all your fellow path/med/medlab/bio.

Then when you buy one, send ME your awesome histo pics (especially histo look-a-likes) please and thanks!!

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Oh, my sister and I did that (without the case) to try and get pictures so we can study when we get home but let me tell you, it took ages. We had to have it slightly on an angle so that the light didn’t come straight through and we couldn’t see anything but I want one of those!

Is that parotid gland?

I think it is actually a cross section through the mucosa of the colon. Those things that look like ‘flowers’ (link) are the Crypts of Lieberkuhn lined by mucus-filled goblet cells.

Happy histo-ing!

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Update: Now available for the budding astronomer! If you prefer your science to be in galaxies far far away!

The Moon Landing (recreated by mesothelial cells from a peritoneal aspirate)

“That’s one small cytoplasmic extension for man, a giant pseudopodium for cell lines”

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Sources:

Cytology from Haneen Al.Maghrabi

Moon Landing photo here from NASA (more here)

Total Eclipse of the Brain

A cerebellar event visible only on a night when the objective lens is clear and the condenser is in alignment.

Rarely seen by med students in neuro-histology labs.

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Hair follicles (in the dermis) v A meteor shower (in space)

A flashback to Look-a-like #46 in keeping with today’s space theme – where I showed you the similarities between a hair follicle in cross section and the Andromeda Galaxy. In this image we see hair follicles in longitudinal section…and some bad puns (sorry! – not really)

A look-a-like that is out of this world and craters to histologists at all levels of expertise. Amateurs to your left and meteorite.

Don’t you think armageddon better at finding these look-a-likes?

Anyway, if this post has left a deepimpact, don’t forget to leave me a comet below!

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Histology Look-a-like #130

A hair follicle v Andromeda galaxy (M31)

Viewed with a microscope: Hair follicles in cross section reveal a multi-layered organization composed of connective tissue, keratinocytes derived from the epidermis and a keratin hair shaft in the center.

Viewed with a telescope: Andromeda (the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy) appears as a region of diffuse light from the hundreds of billions of stars that compose it.

The similarity between the two always makes me smile and wonder if there are as many “hair follicle” galaxies out there are as there are in our own skin.

Remarkably, that is not where the similarity between the histology of hair and astronomy ends. Examining the same hair follicles, but this time cut in longitudinal section, also reveals a cosmological connection. See look-a-like #46 here.

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Sources:

Histology by Haneen Al.Maghrabi

Andromeda by Robert Gendler via NASA

Some people are born with astronomy in their blood…literally.

A solar system consisting of the planets (erythrocytes/red blood cells), their moons (platelets) and the sun (a leukocyte/white blood cell).

New histology look-a-like posted!

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Hey there WordPressers!

I just posted Histology Look-a-like #46 at i-heart-histo that is sure to hit the spot!

Clue: This look-a-like is out of this world and craters to histologists at all levels of expertise.

Find out more about great histology and bad puns at i-heart-histo

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