#spheroid

[daily-grian]

Hi, me again, you know... the one with the Grian nail? Yeah, season 9 inspired me while I was crocheting Among Us amigurumis. So I made an easter egg Grian for you.

He almost looks like a pencil.

amigurumi grian!

[matrim-cauthons-hat]

gonna put Cope Cages on my mechs to protect against missiles like sorry u bought a catapult to tge batchall idiot 😂

[quiltofstars]

The dwarf galaxy Leo I (left) next to the star Regulus (α Leonis) // James E.

The name Regulus comes from the Latin word regulus meaning "little king" or "prince".

[devin-gamerz-sugar-rush]

Redesigns of Thamelia Spheroid, Marsho Gooey, Twizzletop, and Éclairo (new name for him)!

[fromthedust]

Ocean Jasper - cube cut from the first vein

Ocean Jasper, also known as orbicular jasper, is a variety of quartz. It has fibrous spherulites formed as a result of extensive alteration and silification of former tuffs. These structures tend to have radial growth from central points which give the stone circular orbicular patternings. It comes in many colors and spherical patterns, and its hardness on the Mohs scale is 7. It is found in northwestern Madagascar in the Analalava district. There are several known veins, each with unique attributes. The original first vein is located near the village of Marovato, having similar patterns to the eighth vein, which is nearly tapped-out.

Below are some polished slabs and spheroids cut from the eighth vein.

[bpod-bpod]

In the Round

Molecular and physical differences revealed between breast cancer cells lab-grown on a flat surface in 2D versus in 3D as spheroids – the nucleus of the 3D-grown cells is more rounded, has a larger surface, a more compact chromatin [DNA packaged with proteins in the nucleus] and a distinctive set of downregulated genes

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Julieta Ramirez Cuellar and Roberto Ferrari, and colleagues

Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in EMBO Journal, April 2024

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[doolallymagpie]

“refuse your what?” really should’ve been a wake-up call for the Clans re: the language they’d developed in complete isolation

[meeeeeeese]

These spheres in the Cosmic Observatory haunt me

I have to assume they're planets, but what's their significance? Why are they here?? They don't show up in the open world, so what. Are. Their. Deal?!?

[zvaigzdelasas]

Is there some geological reason so many islands are near the equator or is that just coincidental?

[adara-et-al]

nothing quite like world-building to remind you how big the earth is, and how fucking incredible the forces of nature are. Like how big does a continent on a planet really need to be?

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

i think the best wiki page is the characters page. idk why it exists honestly that's what categories are for but also it's hilarious to me like.

idk why this is so funny to me honestly but it is-

[quiltofstars]

The Leo I dwarf galaxy // Jeffbax Velocicaptor

[univdatosmarket]

Organoids and Spheroids Market was valued at ~US$ 500 million in 2020 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of ~23% over the forecast period (2021-2027).

[ferrosiliconm1]