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This marine mollusk (Clione limacina) uses its wing-like appendages to swim.

A mouse macrophage rapidly engulfs Mycobacterium bovis.

February 2014's selection of notable quotes

Neuroscientists are automating neural imaging and recording, allowing them to monitor increasingly large swaths of the brain in living, behaving animals.
 

Fruit flies are fixed to a silica fiber in this new technique to aid neuroscientists in performing laser surgery prior to neuroimaging.

New technology probes the functional unit of nervous transmission.

The festive tiger beetle (Cicindela scutellaris) grabs small invertebrate prey with pincers.

Goblet cells (blue) in a precancerous lesion in the human stomach

Drosophila polytene chromosomes are formed by repeated rounds of DNA replication without cell division.

This 8-micron-wide algal species (Gephyrocapsa oceanica) is covered in protective calcium carbonate plates.

A parasitic nematode (Onchocerca volvulus) emerges from the antenna of a black fly (Simulium yahense).

This crab spider (Thomisus onustus) disguises itself on a yellow flower in order to capture its bee prey.

The genitalia of this male scorpionfly (Panorpa communis) resemble a scorpion's stinger, but are used for holding on to the female during mating, not for stinging.

One daughter cell of the freshwater bacterium Caulobacter crescentus always inherits the stalk, while the other is mobile.

In the adult Drosophila brain, neurons that sense taste (green) interact with axons and dendrites of other nerve cells (red).