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There are many on-line collections of images taken with a microscope. It would be impossible to collect them all, but the links in this table provide a cross section of different imaging modes and subjects. Some sites now include videos of time-lapse or 3D rotations.
Please be respectful of the copyrights of the image owners if you choose to use any of these images.
Image Gallery Web Site |
Types of Specimens |
videos |
LM |
Confocal/ Fluorescence |
TEM |
SEM |
Other |
| Dennis Kunkel's Microscopy | single celled organisms, bugs, viruses, plants, cells, etc. | ||||||
| Microangela's Electron Microscope Image gallery | single celled organisms, bugs, cells, marine life, etc. | ||||||
| SharfPhoto - David Scharf | cells, materials, fungi, semiconductors, insects, etc . | • |
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| Cells Alive! Crystals Alive! |
bacteria, cells organic crystals |
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| The Galleria, Molecular Expressions, Florida State Univ. | computer chips, organic crystals, wood, food, etc. | • |
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| Nikon's Small World Gallery | biological, materials | • |
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| Olympus - list of galleries | biological, materials, insects, pond life (videos) | • |
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| Leica Microimaging - confocal gallery | cells & tissues | ||||||
| DeltaVision Image Gallery, Applied Precision | cells, tissues | ||||||
| Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley EMU Snowflake page USDA Snow Crystal Research |
snowflakes | • |
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| Imaging Technology Group Gallery & Web Atlas, Beckman Inst., Univ. of Illinois | cells, bugs, materials, etc. | • |
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| Diatom Home page, Univ. of Indiana, Biology Dept. Diatom collection, California Academy of Science |
Diatoms | • |
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| Crystal-Land | organic crystals | • |
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| Biomedical Image Awards 1999 | cells & tissues | • |
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| BIODIC - The Ultrastructures Gallery | plants, cell, fungi | ||||||
| BGSU - Algae Image Lab | algae | • |
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| Cytogenetics Gallery | chromosomal spreads | • |
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| Biological movies | cells, plants, organisms, Ca+ imaging | • |
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| BUGscope Gallery | bugs | ||||||
| Foods Under the Microscope | food | • |
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| California Criminalistics Institute | pollen | ||||||
| Image Galleries, Confocal & Electron Microscopy Core Facility, Princeton Univ. | cells, tissues | ||||||
| CSUPERB Confocal Web Site | cells, tissues | ||||||
| Molecular Probes Gallery | cells, tissues | ||||||
| Purdue Cytometry CD-ROM #1 Images | cells, tissues | ||||||
| Cytogenetics Image Gallery, Univ. of Washington | chromosomes | • |
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MicScape: Introduction to Microscopy |
insects, plants, pond life, marine life | • |
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| Algal Microscopy Gallery, Bowling Green State Univ. | diatoms | • |
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| Woody White's SEM Images | materials, bus, plants, etc. | ||||||
| Image Library, Iowa State Univ. | bugs, biological, materials, etc. | ||||||
| Image Gallery, Light Microscopy Forum | protozoa, rotifers, etc. | • |
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| Northern Arizona University - Image Gallery | tissues, cells, plants, insects | • |
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| Plankton Theater | plankton movies | • |
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| Journal of Visualized Experiments (sort of a biological sciences YouTube) | movies of cells and tissues | • |
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| Tissue immunostaining - Ventana Medical Systems | tissue sections | ||||||
| The Paper Project - Arizona State University | handmade papers |
For lists of other sites with images, consider visiting: