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Backscattered electron scanning electron microscope image showing osteoclast resorption of trabecular bone (roughened surfaces). The osteocyte lacunae and canaliculi are also seen within the trabeculae.

(Duncan Bassett, Alan Boyde & Graham Williams)

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Backscattered electron scanning electron microscope image showing osteoclast resorption of trabecular bone (roughened surfaces). The osteocyte lacunae and canaliculi are also seen within the trabeculae.

(Duncan Bassett, Alan Boyde & Graham Williams)

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Cancer may travel through the blood stream in clusters.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/when-tumors-fuse-blood-vessels-clumps-breast-cancer-cells-can-spread

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Cannabidiol, a compound produced by marijuana has shown to help bone healing after fracture. 

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/297012.php

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The tiniest chameleons you’ll ever see! Via Viral Thread

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“Tree-kangaroos are slow and clumsy on the ground. They move at approximately human walking pace and hop awkwardly”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree-kangaroo

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Engineered tissue containing human stem cells has allowed paraplegic rats to walk independently and regain sensory perception.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171116132800.htm

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“This is basically a type of beneficial cell suicide,” says first author Borko Amulic, a postdoc in the lab of Arturo Zychlinsky at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and a newly appointed Lecturer at the University of Bristol. “When neutrophils get overwhelmed, when they can no longer deal with a microbial threat by just engulfing it, that’s when the NETs are released.”

Once a neutrophil is forced induced to release its NETs, it anchors itself in the tissue and breaks down its nuclear envelope: the barrier between the nuclear DNA and the rest of the cell. The researchers were intrigued by this because, normally, cells only break down their nuclear envelope before they divide. Zychlinsky, Amulic, and colleagues hypothesized that neutrophils were using the same cell cycle proteins used for cell division to release the NETs.

Borko Amulic et al, Cell-Cycle Proteins Control Production of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps, Developmental Cell (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.10.013

Bacteria (Shigella flexneri) trapped in a NET. The mesh-like structure of the NET is visible between two still-intact neutrophils. Credit: Volker Brinkmann

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Mouse vole sleeping in the iris, Moscow oblast, Russia (Source)

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Heart of Pluto

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Healthy corals shine. Literally. 

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fluorescence-could-help-diagnose-sick-corals

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Newly discovered Tapanuli orangutan is the rarest great ape on earth.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/new-orangutan-species-sumatra-borneo-indonesia-animals/

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Osteoclasts are your personal bone destroyers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoclast

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Have you ever seen a mandarin fish (Synchiropus splendidus)? Enjoy natures beauty. 

https://owlcation.com/stem/Top-10-Most-Beautiful-Animals-In-The-World

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Pollinators are your best friends

https://xerces.org/

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Osteoblasts, The architects inside your bones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoblast