Nope. This is NOT a fall fashion statement from Seventh Avenue, although
none of the Beautiful People would be caught DEAD without a complete
ensemble of these babies. Or maybe they would since what we're looking at
here are RED BLOOD CELLS as seen in a scanning electron micrograph. By the
billions, cells like these course through the 100,000 miles of veins and
arteries that circulate blood about the human body. The cells get their
red color from iron-rich hemoglobin which is responsible for transporting
oxygen throughout the body. This CSI is presented courtesy of James A.
Sullivan. He operates a primo site called CELLS alive! where you can see a
showing of Anatomy of a Splinter and the first-run movie, Bursting Bacteria
starring the Arnold Schwarzenegger of antibiotics, penicillin.
Copyright James A. Sullivan.