Today’s Friend From Borneo Is The Bornean Tree-hole Frog (Metaphrynella Sundana)! He Is Singing His

Caenorhabditis elegans

Photo credit: Unknown. All earliest source links (circa 2008) are dead.

You are extraordinary

One of a kind and yet

Millions of ones

Ever changing

You are the heartbreak

And the heartbeat

You are the master

And the student

You are evolution

And stability

You are the life

And the spark

And the answer

And the question

And in the times that you feel lost

Please remember all of these things

That make you

Extraordinary

Pleural fluid - cytospin slide stained with wrights stain - lung cancer

Babesia

Myeloblasts in AML

Church of Whale Fall

Who doesn't love a good ole PAS stain?

Ft some lovely Cryptococcus organisms

A prominent Human Gut Bacterium in the intestine.  Bacteria form symbiotic relationships with many organisms, including humans. One example is the bacteria that live inside the human digestive system. These microbes break down food and produce vitamins that humans need. In return, the bacteria benefit from the stable environment inside the intestines. Bacteria also colonize human skin. The bacteria obtain nutrients from the surface of the skin, while providing people with protection against more dangerous microbes.

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Photo: A. Keding / © AMNH