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Christian. Clinical Biochemistry Student.
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Just wanted to share with you this picture I took at the Lab today. I know it’s not the best blood smear nor the best staining ever but I liked the look on those cells you can see. These are blood cells. Cells like those ones are happily going through your veins and arteries. The red small ones are called erythrocytes and they are the ones that carry the oxygen all over your body. The upper one (grayish-purple) is a neutrophil, which fights infections. Finally, the pink granulated one is an eosinophil, a cell that helps us fight with parasites.

Just wanted to share with you this picture I took at the Lab today. I know it’s not the best blood smear nor the best staining ever but I liked the look on those cells you can see.

These are blood cells. Cells like those ones are happily going through your veins and arteries. The red small ones are called erythrocytes and they are the ones that carry the oxygen all over your body. The upper one (grayish-purple) is a neutrophil, which fights infections. Finally, the pink granulated one is an eosinophil, a cell that helps us fight with parasites.

OMG! Bacillus cereus, such a cuttie :D Leifson flagella staining.

OMG! Bacillus cereus, such a cuttie :D

Leifson flagella staining.

afracturedreality:

BREAKING NEWS

A fertilizer plant in West, Texas, a small town near Waco, exploded earlier this afternoon. The explosion was so massive that it registered a 2.1 on the Richter Scale and could be felt 100 miles away! And this happened within a 2-hour drive from where I live! At least 50 homes were completely leveled, including a school, apartment and nursing home. A fire is still raging at this time. More than 60 people may be dead and over a 200 more are injured.

For anyone in the DFW area (or anywhere as a matter of fact) — if you are eligible, I urge you to go and donate blood. A single blood donation can save up to 3 lives! Most people have blood to spare, yet there is still NOT ENOUGH to go around.

To find the next American Red Cross blood donation opportunity within 25 miles of Dallas, visit this link. Or, if you live somewhere else, you can enter in your zip code on this form to find donation opportunities near you!

To find a Carter BloodCare donor center near you, visit this link. To find the next Carter BloodCare blood drive in your area, visit this link.

fuckyeahmicrobiology: Herd immunity (or community immunity) describes a form of immunity that occurs when the vaccination of a significant portion of a population (or herd) provides a measure of protection for individuals who have not developed immunity. Herd immunity theory proposes that, in contagious diseases that are transmitted from individual to individual, chains of infection are likely to be disrupted when large numbers of a population are immune or less susceptible to the disease. The greater the proportion of individuals who are resistant, the smaller the probability that a susceptible individual will come into contact with an infectious individual. Vaccination acts as a sort of firebreak or firewall in the spread of the disease, slowing or preventing further transmission of the disease to others. Unvaccinated individuals are indirectly protected by vaccinated individuals, as the latter will not contract and transmit the disease between infected and susceptible individuals. Hence, a public health policy of herd immunity may be used to reduce spread of an illness and provide a level of protection to a vulnerable, unvaccinated subgroup. This is why everyone must be vaccinated, and by not doing so, you are actually putting the community in danger. Source Follow VacciNewsNet on facebook.

fuckyeahmicrobiology:

Herd immunity (or community immunity) describes a form of immunity that occurs when the vaccination of a significant portion of a population (or herd) provides a measure of protection for individuals who have not developed immunity. Herd immunity theory proposes that, in contagious diseases that are transmitted from individual to individual, chains of infection are likely to be disrupted when large numbers of a population are immune or less susceptible to the disease. The greater the proportion of individuals who are resistant, the smaller the probability that a susceptible individual will come into contact with an infectious individual.

Vaccination acts as a sort of firebreak or firewall in the spread of the disease, slowing or preventing further transmission of the disease to others. Unvaccinated individuals are indirectly protected by vaccinated individuals, as the latter will not contract and transmit the disease between infected and susceptible individuals. Hence, a public health policy of herd immunity may be used to reduce spread of an illness and provide a level of protection to a vulnerable, unvaccinated subgroup.

This is why everyone must be vaccinated, and by not doing so, you are actually putting the community in danger.

Source

Follow VacciNewsNet on facebook.

At least he came clean at the end. Let this teach us not to wish for fame or money, but for the truth. Don’t waste your life in vain and meaningless things, because you’ll regret it at the end.

At least he came clean at the end. Let this teach us not to wish for fame or money, but for the truth. Don’t waste your life in vain and meaningless things, because you’ll regret it at the end.

jtotheizzoe: I’m sort of thrown off today. it’s hard to be motivated to bring you science when there’s Reality going on. When something hits us upside the head like the Boston Marathon explosions, we can feel dizzy, disoriented … left swirling in a dust-storm of rapidly beating hearts, furrowed brows, held breath and shaking heads. That’s how I feel, anyway. I’ve been sitting here, repeatedly muttering statements that begin with “What the f…” and simultaneously cheering and cursing the power of social media to communicate painful news. I keep looking through Twitter and blogs, knowing exactly what I’ll see and don’t want to. So powerful, but so unfiltered.  It’s not the first time in the past year that this message from Fred Rogers has been appropriate, and that’s perhaps the ultimate tragedy. But he’s right. Every photo of violence and blood in the streets of Boston that we won’t unsee is full of people running in to help. And if we have to look, that’s what we should focus on. My thoughts are with Boston. 

jtotheizzoe:

I’m sort of thrown off today. it’s hard to be motivated to bring you science when there’s Reality going on.

When something hits us upside the head like the Boston Marathon explosions, we can feel dizzy, disoriented … left swirling in a dust-storm of rapidly beating hearts, furrowed brows, held breath and shaking heads. That’s how I feel, anyway. I’ve been sitting here, repeatedly muttering statements that begin with “What the f…” and simultaneously cheering and cursing the power of social media to communicate painful news. I keep looking through Twitter and blogs, knowing exactly what I’ll see and don’t want to. So powerful, but so unfiltered. 

It’s not the first time in the past year that this message from Fred Rogers has been appropriate, and that’s perhaps the ultimate tragedy. But he’s right. Every photo of violence and blood in the streets of Boston that we won’t unsee is full of people running in to help. And if we have to look, that’s what we should focus on.

My thoughts are with Boston. 

My drawing on enterobacteria antigens. Original here.