Red Berets?
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.


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