Science News says the little tubes help immune cells travel from bone marrow to injured parts of the brain membrane:
… Read the rest “Just discovered: Tiny tunnels that connect your brain to your skull.”In mice, inflammatory immune cells use these previously hidden channels
If you want to give your old-fashioned lover your heart. Or kidney.
Ah, tradition.
Cecile Dachary does all manner of feminine arts, always with a logical (or, really, “-logical”)… Read the rest “Science Art: Anatomical Embroidery by Cecile Dachary”
LiveScience introduces us to Saniwa ensidens, a now-extinct monitor lizard from Wyoming that had an eye on either side of its head and two more on the top of its skull:
… Read the rest “Extinct lizard had four eyes.”S. ensidens‘
Science Daily sniffs out how weather patterns affect the shape of our family’s noses:
… Read the rest “Our noses were shaped by the climate.”“We are interested in recent human evolution and what explains the evident variation
Behold, the seat of consciousness and feeling.
Maybe not the source, but the seat.
From Charles Dessalines D’Orbigny’s Universal Dictionary of Natural… Read the rest “Science Art: Mammiferes, Pl. 3, from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, 1849”
My old dog was a basset. And now there’s a bulldog in my house. I’m not sure how dogs happen, but they do.
This is what these breeds (pretty “over-bred” breeds) look… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941”
Someone went to the museum today. This has always been one of my favorite bits of human anatomy, the spirals inside our sinuses. Evolutionarily, they say they’re… Read the rest “Science Art: Oral Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses – Coronal View exhibit, from Our Body: The Universe Within”
The book Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques is Alphonse Bertillon‘s guide for identifying criminal suspects.
These ear dimensions… Read the rest “Science Art: Oreille schematique, from Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques, 1893.”
Nature Methods has the details on a process that seems totally like 1950s B-movie technology with a 1970s sci-fi name – a system called “ultimate DISCO” to prepare mice… Read the rest “So we’re shrinking animals and making them transparent. Like, in real life.”
New Scientist has photos and video of a severed rat limb… that was never part of any rat’s body. It was grown in a dish:
… Read the rest “A lab-grown limb (muscle, blood and skin).”It may go down in history as the first step to creating real,
This is a naked woman, as seen in 1911 by a German medical expert. The book’s title translates to “The Woman As Family Doctor,” and it’s pretty much a home health… Read the rest “Science Art: From Die Frau als Hausärztin by Anna Fischer-Dückelmann, 1911”
This one is definitely worth clicking to embiggen. It’s from the very detailed, very large Histoire générale et particulière du développement des corps organisés… Read the rest “Science Art: Uterus En Etat De Gestation by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste”
Take a deep breath.
This is the inside of your lung, seen really closely. At the time his was drawn, we weren’t really sure what it did, other than… breathe. … Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 3, Transverse Section of a Single Cell by F. Bauer, Esq., F.R.S., 1827.”
Ever feel congested? Here’s where it happens – the paranasal sinuses. These ones are under your eyes. And the artery we’re specifically looking at here comes from the… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure Showing Anterior Ethmoidal Artery, 2013.”
Tennis, a different perspective. From All About the Human Body, 1958, found in the reference library of Newhouse Design.
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