Life Mounds by Charles Jencks

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Life Mounds by Charles Jencks


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Artist Statement

Eight landforms and a connecting causeway surround four lakes and a flat parterre for sculpture exhibits. The theme is the life of the cell, cells as the basic units of life, and the way one cell divides into two in stages called mitosis (presented in a red sandstone rill). Curving concrete seats have cell models surrounded by Liesegang rocks. Their red iron concentric circles bear an uncanny relationship to the many organelles inside the units of life. From above, the layout presents their early division into membranes and nuclei, a landform celebration of the cell as the basis of life.

B0007833 Human appendix infected with measles virus


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B0007833 Human appendix infected with measles virus

Credit: Dr Stephen McQuaid & Stewart Church / QUB / Wellcome Images

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Fluorescent micrograph showing a section of human appendix infected with the measles virus. Measles is highly contagious virus transmitted though contact with mucous membranes of an infected person (mouth or nose) or airborne water droplets. It is primarily a respiratory disease and symptoms include coughing, sneezing, high fever and can lead to pneumonia. .

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This image shows cells of the appendix infected with the virus. The measles virus is shown in green, cytokeratin is shown in red, which marks the epithelium, and Dapi staining highlights the cell nucleus in blue.

Fluorescence microscopy

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Life Mounds by Charles Jencks