Medical Micrographs: a View into the Human Body

 

science has advanced exponentially in the last century. Even just the way the human body and pathology are viewed. We’ve gone from the basic x-ray to be able to see a single cell in the human body. Or even smaller.

One of the most fascinating innovations has been the Scanning Electron Micrograph, often referred to simply as an SEM for short. It has revealed hidden worlds of the human body, medical, and of course the natural world as well.

Gallery of Medical and Anatomical SEMs (micrographs) Stock Photography

The scanning electron microscope was invented in 1937 by Manfred von Ardenne the SEM machine uses electrons to record the surface topography of objects.

SEM of Maple Leaf Tote bag

Bringing to Light, Creatures of Darkness

Danté Fenolio, Ph.D., has devoted his life to bringing rarely seen creatures to light through his beautiful and eerie photography.

Danté Fenolio Caving in China

He's brought us images from habitats without light: caves, the bottom of the ocean, and the canopies of the rainforest. Not interested in the typical, but seeking out underappreciated and rarely seen creatures to highlight the need for conservation of the world's biodiversity.

Danté Fenolio’s Photo Gallery

Science Source Images is proud to represent several exclusive photographs from his collection. Discover a Fangtooth from the Gulf of Mexico, a colony of Siphonophore, orange and red-colored Jellies, transparent Batfish, blind albino Salamanders. Creatures so unusual, they may not seem real, but they are part of the wonder of our planet.

Fenolio is not only a successful author, adventure photographer, but runs the Conservation and Research Department at the San Antonio Zoo. His many projects to save animals and their habitats span the globe. Along with China, Peru, Japan, and Chile he works in the United States. His efforts range from the Ozarks, Oklahoma to Georgia.

Bringing focus to blind cave fish, Japanese Giant Salamander and endangered Chilean amphibians.