The male of the species...

The male of the species sits perched, awaiting a potential mate...

Team "Cousin" MVP

Her heart and determination started the rally that lead us to VICTORY!!!

Swingin' For The FENCES!

ACTION SHOT! Look at the follow through! B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!!!

An eyeful a day keeps the doctors away!

Honestly, what can't they do???

Do you sleep in the buff?

Do you sleep in the buff?

EWWW! GROSS!

Did you know there are more free living bacteria cells on your skin, in your nose and mouth, and in your colon than their are cells in your entire body??? I know, it's pretty freakin' gross. There are about a trillion bacteria in your mouth alone, and thats the estimate of someone with decent dental hygiene!!! The circular bacteria shown are cocci, the elongated bacteria are bacilli, and the cork screw bacteria are called spirilla. The cocci S.O.B.s are what cause streph throat and staph infections!!!

Some perspective...

Your kidneys filter 180 L of fluid per day.... thats 45 gallons of fluid per day.
However, they manage to recover all but 1.5 L of fluid (urine) per day.... about 1/3 of a gallon.
That means they are filtering 65,700 L of fluid per year... about 16,425 gallons per year.
Yet, only 137 gallons per year come out as urine.
In a life time the average set of male kidneys will have processed 1.2 million gallons of fluid...
...and produced 10,265 gallons of urine!!!

Now that's hard work!

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Tradition

It's tradition at PSU College of Medicine that first year medical students are taught male and female reproductive histology on Valentines Day.

Too funny!

More Amazing!

This is really freaking cool! This is an electronmicrograph of the alveoli in your lungs (the air sacs where the oxygen/carbon dioxide exchange occurs in your body). You can see a big mass (MA) sitting on the lung tissue. That big mass is actually a macrophage, which is a cell produced in your bone marrow that travels around your body and eats invading bacteria. You have a lot of these things crawling around your lungs because you tend to inhale a lot of bacteria. Extending to the bottom-left (your left) of the macrophage is a pseudopod (false foot) and the arrows point to the edges of it. The pseudopod is used by the macrophage to crawl across the surface of the inside of your lungs as it scavenges for invading bacteria to destroy.

Amazing!

Guess what it is! Guess what it is!

It's a Red Blood Cell squeezing through a hole in the spleen. Newer red blood cells are pretty deformable... which is how they fit through your tiny capillaries and provide oxygen to your body. Older red blood cells are not able to deform as well, and are filtered out by the spleen because they can't squeeze through these holes!

This picture was taken by an electronmicrograph.