Neurons

Dye-coated tungsten particles were shot into a plate of primary neural culture with a gene-gun. the more diffuse, amorphous cells are glia (astrocytes), the smaller more varicose ones are neurons (probably only visable if the picture is viewed at a large size).

Image courtesy of Flickr; user neurollero.

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