2016 Photomicrography Competition

Brain cells from skin cells : Specifically, this is a culture of neurons (stained green) derived from human skin cells, and Schwann cells, a second type of brain cell (stained red), which have started to cover the neuron in the same way these cells interact in the brain.

Rebecca Nutbrown

Affiliation

University of Oxford
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Technique

Confocal, Immunofluorescence, iPSCs

Magnifaction

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