#microscreepy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #microscreepy, aggregated by home.social.
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For night 30 of #31NightsofHalloween #MicrosCreepy, here are some amoebae squished under a jello-like pad. The flashes you see are contractile vacuole pumping events-- this organelle colllects and expels water (like bailing water out of a boat!)
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For night 28 of #31NightsOfHalloween #MicrosCreepy,
IT'S ALIVE! These are reanimated cell "ghosts," which are cells that have had their membranes/cytoplasm washed away, leaving the cytoskeleton behind. Adding ATP activates myosin motors, which causes contraction!