This was a cover that I had hoped would be published with an article that I helped to co-author that described a pro-survival gene, or otherwise functioning as an anti-apoptotic gene.  Playing with the images of apoptotic cells in culture I did manage to submit the image to Microscopy Today, and they published it in 2008.

I thnk what amazes me is that I really made a whole lot more cover submissions than were successfully published (LOL). I find a similar statistic in publishing data, where really only a small part of what is studied, learned, documented, and put out there in the world of science, makes it into print.  Good things have to get strained through the teeth of overworked and sometimes not that interested peer-reviewers.  Who, I wonder, thinks so highly of themselves that they have the right, and/or mission, to exclude the works of others.  Notwithstanding the well know fraud in science, the great majority of individuals working to find “truth” in all its glory, are honest and well-intentioned.

More images of gastric epithelium in the mouse, onto which is layered some vector graphics of mitochondria, vesicles, nucleus (pale condensed chromatin areas within, nuclear membrane (inner and outer membrane and perinuclear space — but no nuclear pores are identified here specifically but the places where outer and inner nuclear membrane come together nuclear pores would be found.  This is color and information together, for the 21 century and the digital age.

The microvillar (highly microvillar) apical membrane is shown, the lateral membrane and basal membrane are not distinguished from each other except as the bottom of the diagram is basal.

Yes, this is what I explained in the title.  It can be beautiful as seen here in this hematoxylin and eosin stained light micrograph of the contents of a mouse intestine.  The order comes from remains of plant fibers, ha ha. A totally awesome image, nice enough to put this c**p on any wall as artwork.  Don’t you love science.