Wiring the human brain Credit:Alfred Anwander, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences A map of pathways inside a person’s brain. Different parts of the brain talk to each other using different pathways and these have been coloured in here. This is a view from behind. It shows the links between the left and right sides of brain in red, the links between front and back in green, and the links between the brain and the rest of the body in blue. This brain is about 16.5 cm wide.


Clathrin Cage Credit: Maria Voigt, RCSB Protein Data Bank. These tiny cages are like baskets that carry things around inside a cell from one place to another. Cells can have lots of these cages inside them. When the cage is not being used it breaks up into smaller pieces, which get recycled. The cage can be put back together again when it’s next needed. This cage is about 50 nanometres (0.00005 mm) across.


Human STEM Cell Credit: A Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman, King’s College London. A stem cell, which can make some of the other types of cells found in the body. This one was taken from inside a person’s hip bone and was put in a mixture of chemicals made to be like where the cell lives inside the body. The cell is about 15 micrometres (0.015 mm) across.


Engineering Human Liver Tissue Credit :Chelsea Fortin, Kelly Stevens and Sangeeta Bhatia, Koch Institute, © MIT. This small piece of human liver has been put into a mouse with a damaged liver. The human liver has started to grow using blood from the mouse to help. Researchers hope that one day this could be used to help people with damaged livers. This picture is 1.1 mm wide. This image appeared as a result of the partnership between Wellcome Images and the Koch Institute at MIT.


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