Some cells are just in it for the drama!
The bottom 5 microns of cells videoed through a microscope by @EmmaKoory. The middle cell rounds up (for fun?) and subsequently rounds up to divide. We missed so much of the action by just sampling the bottom. @CellBiology

A hungry heart muscle cell (cardiac myocyte) videoed through a microscope by Burnette Lab graduate student, @EmmaKoory. What is it eating and why? We may never know....... #CellBiology

A cell with prominent membrane blebs videoed using spinning disk confocal (left) and differential interference contrast (right) microscopy. #CellBiology

A large extracellular vesicle called a "blebbisome" videoed through a spinning disk confocal microscope. Video dimensions: 15x15 microns. #CellBiology
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Membrane blebs on a cancer cell videoed through a DIC microscope. What are blebs? Intracellular pressure within the cell blowing up tiny balloons using the plasma membrane. Or something like that. #CellBiology

iPS cell-derived cardiac myocytes (heart muscle cells) typically beat about once per second, so I usually speed up the movies I post; otherwise, scrollers might miss the action. But every now and then, a cell looks like this in real time. #CellBiology

Beating iPSC-derived heart muscle cells videoed through a microscope. Alpha-actinin-2 is shown. #CellBiology

An iPSC-derived heart muscle cell assembling sarcomeres videoed through a spinning disk confocal microscope by Burnette Lab graduate student, Emma Koory. Alpha-actinin-2 is shown. Colors denote Z slices (red-bottom; green-middle; blue-top). Movie length- 40 hours.

An iPSC heart muscle cell forming sarcomeres videoed through a microscope by Emma Koory for 20 h before it dies most dramatically. This was our first try on a new microscope, and Emma now has the imaging parameters dialed in so her cells do not go POP! Alpha-actinin-2 is shown. #CellBiology

How most people think DNA is organized in the nucleus vs. how it’s actually organized. Structured illumination microscopy (SIM). Z sections shown from bottom to top of the nucleus. #CellBiology

Fish keratocytes isolated from a fish scale crawling around. Technique: DIC microscopy. #CellBiology.
Another #NikonSmallWorldReject