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The algal species Haematococcus pluvialis produces the red pigment astaxanthin when subjected to environmental stressors, such as low nutrient availability.

This section through a mouse stomach shows where food is digested (black area near the top) by enzymes and acids made by the green and magenta cells, respectively, while the red cells lining the stomach's surface secrete mucus to protect the stomach from self-digestion.

A new study on the gut microbiome of closely related wasp species in genus Nasonia provides evidence for the controversial hologenomic theory of evolution, which states that the genomes of both a host and its microbial symbiotes contribute to host speciation.

This 2-day-old zebrafish heart tube shows muscle cells (green) and other components of the muscle (red and blue).

Differential interference contrast microscopy captured these images of schwannomas, benign tumors of Schwann cells, which insulate nerves in the periphery of the body with fatty myelin sheaths.

The orange pore fungus (Favolaschia calocera), native to Madagascar, grows on decaying plant matter in forests.

Neurons in a larval zebrafish are distinguished using the Brainbow method, in which different ratios of a handful of colored fluorescent proteins are expressed randomly to give each neuron a unique hue.

Inside a bioreactor, the cells of a human heart are washed away by detergents, leaving a protein scaffolding that can then be injected with heart-muscle precursor cells.

Butterflies use their club-shaped antenna for balance as well as sensing odors, wind currents, and possibly the position of the sun.

Photomicrograph of axons sprouting out of mouse embryo retinal neurons cultured in a Petri dish.

The common rotifer (Philodina roseola), captured here by a polarized light microscope, is a freshwater zooplankton feasted upon by copepods, comb jellies, and fish.

Scanning electron micrograph of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, (yellow) and a human neutrophil (red)

Wind shuttles spores released from a gall on an apple tree to a cedar tree in order to complete the life cycle of the devastating cedar-apple rust.