So, as many of you know, I took Electron Microscopy last term and it was a horrible epic nightmare consisting of every single piece of equipment breaking down at every step of the process any time I came near it. Luckily, I persevered, got everything done (with extensions of course) and I am working on posting the results of my work in here. Is it art? I don't fucking care. After how long I spent getting these god-damned projects going, I'm going to show these photos to as many people as possible. I think they're cool, so there.

The T4 infected E. coli project even seems to be somewhat unique from what I've seen. All of the other photos I've seen out there of bacteriophages in action seem to use a negative stain (getting the whole bacteria/virus on top of a film and pooling stain around them) instead of sectioning (embedding the bacteria/virus in plastic and cutting superthin sections through them), which after all the trouble I went through with the cutting, I can see why. I haven't seen ANY pictures of sections through the capsid heads of bacteriophages, so I'm not 100% sure that the dark spots inside are the genome, but there really isn't anything else that could be in there. Viruses are not structurally complex.

As for the rat lung, well, that's not new by a long shot. I did a paper on rat lung last term for Histology though, so I figured I'd do it again here so I wouldn't have to learn a ton of new material. Lazy me. It's visually interesting though.

I decided to post the pictures without all the structures labelled 'cause it's more aesthetically pleasing that way, and y'all aren't exactly a science crowd anyway. If anyone's dying to know what everything is I can post the labelled pics.